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Building a Wellness Community with Maria Marshall.

• Yuli Ziv • Episode 32

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After years of personal healing and spiritual growth, Maria Marshall, CEO and founder of Gaia Goddess, joins us on a transformative journey to discuss the power of cultivating a wellness community rooted in the divine feminine connection with nature. In this episode, Maria shares her personal healing journey and how it sparked the creation of an online sanctuary for women to explore and awaken the healer within.  Join us as we explore the wonders of remote healing, leadership in the healing community, and the strategies for building an authentic social media presence.

We reflect on the challenges healers face as they transition into roles of influence, addressing emotional blocks and societal perceptions that can conflict with the values of the healing and spiritual community. Maria and Yuli share personal experiences with embracing creativity and the flow state, as well as the impact it has on personal and professional development. Additionally, we explore strategies for building an authentic community on social media, highlighting the value of staying true to one's brand message and creating content that reflects your genuine personality. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that weaves together the threads of community, healing, and digital innovation.

Learn more about Maria's mission at https://gaiagoddesslifestyle.com  and @gaiagoddesslifestyle on Instagram.

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Yuli:

Welcome to the Healist Podcast, where we inspire and guide healers through business expansion. We give voice to incredibly abundant healers to share their stories. We dive into the quantum field to unlock the energies of conscious creation. We also develop digital tools to help you grow, which you can find on HealLesscom. I'm your host, Yuli, and I'm grateful you chose to join this space. Now let's go deep.

Yuli:

Hello, my dear friends, and welcome to another episode of the HealLess podcast. Today we're here with Maria Marshall talking about building a wellness community a very exciting topic and Maria is the CEO and founder of Gaia Goddess, an eco-feminine brand committed to empowering the divine, feminine connection with nature and a community for women to flourish as they discover the healer within. Maria is a conscious creative who utilizes social entrepreneurship and community building to inspire, heal and empower women. Maria, just reading your bio, it just makes me feel so good. I cannot wait for this conversation and I like to set intention for each episode and for this one, I really would love to get your wisdom and dive deep into the idea of building the feminine, divine, feminine community, because I think so many of us are discovering our communities these days. I think so many of us are discovering our communities these days and as we go through this turbulent times, there's nothing more important. So it seems like you have the secret or the keys to building one, and I would love to get some of your wisdom. Welcome to the podcast.

Maria:

Yuli, thank you so much for inviting me and I'm so pleased to be here. It was a pleasure meeting you at the Awaken Fair and just being in the trenches together as we connect healers and hold the light for the planet and humanity at large. So thank you so much for inviting me, of course, my pleasure.

Yuli:

As you know, we like to have those conversations unscripted and just see where we go. So I would love to just dive in into the topic of communities and, as someone who sat on this big mission, like yourself, of bringing this new generation right, the new energy, the new feminine energy, bringing those groups into communities and for this healing and exploration, where do you start, like, how did the idea start? How did you decide that this is the format, this is where we do it, because there's so many ways to approach different things, right, and you decided to use an online platform to do so and this particular niche kind of came up. So what was the process around?

Maria:

that Great question. You don't always know, when you're starting out, where you're headed, and the universe can steer you in many different directions. I actually began thinking we were doing something very different and I did know through my own healing journey, my own dark night of the soul that lasted years and all of the energies that I had to heal that really had to do with being a woman, being disempowered, lack of self-worth, lack of self-love, abuse from the childhood, inner child stuff all of this stuff that everyone deals with. But we as women, particularly on the planet, have a lot to heal, and men do too. But for us to come into balance with the masculine, for the divine feminine to awaken and embody her power, there is a lot of individual and collective healing that must be done. I did it, I've been doing it, I'm still doing it, and with the lack of community it is so much harder and that's okay. I think I was meant to go it mostly alone so that I could see what could be created for women that would support them on their journeys. Not every woman was stepping into great healing at the time that I was. We're all starting when we start, right when we start, and it's all beautiful and divinely timed and no one's ahead of the other. It's just what it is. But I felt very alone in my process and while healing can be expensive, there's a lot we can do collectively over Zoom. Believe it or not, a Zoom Reiki session with me or one of my healers or one of your healers, or a Zoom breathwork session is incredibly powerful. Now, is it ideal to be together face-to-face? Yes, and we do those events and retreats to have that experience, because in lockdown we were missing out on that. But what about the woman who can't fly in for that event? What about the person that's not close or doesn't have childcare? So the online content gives them a curated program to heal through, to understand healing. What is spirituality, break it down to the basics and then expand out.

Maria:

I've had the good fortune to work with shamans, plant medicine, chiropractors, acupuncturists, craniosacral therapists, psychics you name it. I have explored most of my healing I've done on myself, but there were times I heard you need to go to so-and-so because this is going to be a tough one. This is a tough piece for you, and it was a hypnotherapist where I saw repressed childhood trauma. Go to so-and-so because this is going to be a tough one. This is a tough piece for you and it was a hypnotherapist where I saw repressed childhood trauma and sometimes you got to see it to heal it right, feel it to heal it. So for me, the community and the on-demand is what supports women in between their retreats, in between their events, in between their one-on-one sessions with other healers, because not everybody can afford a $200 Reiki session or a $400 breathwork session or a $1,000 whatever retreat. Not everybody can afford that. But we all are our own healers and we all have the ability to be led and lead ourselves to the right thing at the right time. So that's why I created the online content and it's very powerful.

Maria:

You can transmute through. I mean, I used to say is this going to work? Reiki long distance? Is the breath work going to work long distance? But you know Reiki level two is a long distance healing. Is the breath work going to work long distance? But you know Reiki level two is a long distance healing. So it does work long distance.

Maria:

Is it slightly different experience? Yes, but it still works, and so we can make it available to everyone. Every woman on the planet deserves healing and, through my platform and others right that are out there doing this work. I can make it accessible to every woman and you know, and give memberships away, you know. And so I think it has ability to stretch across the world. I think it has the ability to grow and we can collaborate with women in other countries and bring humanity together too. Not just it's. Part of the healing is like taking down the borders, taking down the separation that we all experience today, you know, but as the divine feminine, we're one, right, we're one with everything, but I feel like we have to come together to support each other.

Yuli:

And it's such a beautiful mission, and I'm just really excited about the way you talk about remote healing, because it's something that is close to my heart do it more efficiently and easier and become more friendly with some of those technologies that can really help you streamline the whole process. But I still find that the idea itself, as much as it's not a novice idea for people like ourselves who are entrepreneurs in this space, it's still pretty new for a lot of people. So do you feel like it's one of your missions is also to promote the idea that it could be accessible, it could be remote and it could be this easy you know virtual community thing, or do you find that people that come to you they're already aware of that and they just, you know, looking for a community to join?

Maria:

Well, right now we'll find out because we haven't launched the membership yet. Part of the membership will have a monthly breath work and my experience and I'm certified in that and my experience with it on Zoom is that it's very powerful. It's powerful to do by yourself when I do it every day, by myself for the most part, but when you come together with people, even through Zoom, it's amplified. So because there are other souls that have shown up and your soul knows you're going to that breathwork session, so whatever it's ready to like, oops, right before the session I feel this little pain in my heart and the minute I start doing the breath I start releasing because our souls know and so even if we're doing something remote, it's going to get the benefit of. Now, where people come to me, I feel like with Gaia Goddess, a lot are more at an entry level sort of stage where they don't even maybe know what tapping is or theta healing or all these different ways of doing energy work. And, yes, so much of it can be done remotely and that's great, and so much of it can be done in a group as well. So I think that it'll be interesting to see, but I believe, what will happen. When people come to Gaia Goddess, they experience their first group breath work. They're gonna say, oh my God, I feel different.

Maria:

I was on Laura Day. She's an intuitive, she has a big following and she invited me on and she asked me to send some healing out to the group and I work with a light system in sacred geometry to send some healing out to the group and I work with a light system in sacred geometry. So I just started pulling out lights and I was like, okay, I'm picking up some sadness. I mean, there were people listening live on Instagram, but I was led to work with certain lights and the people who listened, even after it was live, felt the lights. Many of them felt the lights. So I believe I know it works and if you're in tuned and you feel like what does it feel like before the Reiki session and how do I feel after, if you even just ask that little question, you will notice a shift and that's just what happens.

Maria:

A shift occurs in your energetic field. It works and people, if they're open to it, will see that and then they'll be like, oh my God, this is amazing. I want to learn how to do this now. Now I want to be a Reiki master. That's how it spreads. People get excited because suddenly something they didn't know was real is now real for them. And it's not because someone's telling them, it's because they experienced it themselves. And suddenly they feel more empowered. Oh, I really felt it. Now I can buy into that. This is a real thing. But I think Yuli also, where we have been as a society and where we're going, is really setting a stage for people to be way more open to this than they have been in the past.

Yuli:

Yes, absolutely. I mean, I can't agree more and I think, like you mentioned, for many people is just that having that first experience the experience and the magic and knowing that it's real, because the only way to believe it listen, some people, they need scientific proofs and studies and you know, here's the research right. Other people are more open, but I think all of us can relate to that idea. When you experiencing a miracle right yourself, you're experiencing something that you didn't believe was real, or you know, you just didn't believe in period. And when you have that moment, when you experience that, I think something shifts right and it's amazing if you can give those moments to many more people. I think that's an incredible mission, right? Many more people.

Maria:

I think that's an incredible mission, right? Yeah, I think it is too, and I'm really touched and honored to be able to be of service in this way, because I remember the first time I felt energy in my body and how I had been yearning to understand so much in life, but nobody cultivated any sort of spirituality in the house or anything that had all these existential questions. As a very young child, I was very sensitive. My first experience of feeling energy in my body it was like this oh my God, I can't believe this. I felt the buzzing, my heart was open, I got my channel for my crown. I started getting messages, tears of joy streaming down my face.

Maria:

You know I had been so unconscious, walking around with an ice pack on my back for 13 years, just playing it so small, and I'm really kind of like suffering through life, not because I was ill or anything, just because I wasn't happy. And so to me, to learn and to feel energy and know energy, healing exists, and feel your soul and then get the communication, it is like a miracle. It's the miracle of who we be, that's the miracle. It's the power that we all have, that's the miracle, and it's sad to me that nothing.

Yuli:

It's not funny, it's a synchronicity right, which is very usual for this podcast. But you mentioned Laura Day and actually my I would say, one of the most like profound miracle experience was doing Laura Day's workshop. That I did exactly five years ago. It was a group summit in New York City and it was the first time speaking of wellness community that I came in and I saw I think it was a thousand people right that came for a full day of just wellness and spiritual exploration and it was just such an eye-opening experience for me to realize like, oh my God, there is a community that is really seeking this kind of knowledge, because back then I was still closeted a spiritualist.

Yuli:

I was still with my previous company and living a very different life, and one of the workshops was Laura Day and it was just an hour and in that hour she taught us intuitive reading and I knew nothing about it coming in, but I was just so drawn to her Right and then at the end of it she wanted to do the exercise and she puts us on the spot and she says, okay, who wants to practice reading?

Yuli:

You know, laura, she's very direct and my hand just goes up and was like I want to do readings. So I end up doing a reading for Laura Day within like an hour of meeting her and without having any intuitive reading experience, and I said some things that really resonated with her and it was just such a shock to my system. This is when I had my miracle moment. Oh my God, we all have this ability and I think I just uncovered mine and since then, like, my life hasn't been the same. It was one of the pushes that I needed to really pursue this direction, and so I still remember that. It's just interesting that we both connected with her.

Maria:

And it's interesting that I, like you said synchronicity, just chose to bring up Laura Day to talk about remote healing and then you had that aha moment and that I talk about synchronicities in my podcast because I had a major one with Ethan Hawke, the actor, and being a crazy one in a delightful way, in a miraculous, wonderful, awe-inspiring way, and so I really believe that part of the healing is to know how powerful we are, that we do create through syncretic. We get messages, through synchronicities and confirmations, through coincidences and these, and we just have an example of it right now.

Yuli:

I had a tingles in my body. That's what you get when you start to be really in tune and you start practicing. Right, you start at the moment you mentioned her name, like I got this whole tingly thing, like, oh, you have to tell this story.

Maria:

There we go. Spirit's still steering. We think we're doing this. That's the funny thing. We think we're actually controlling this podcast and our businesses and our life and this world. And guess what? No, no, it's spirits doing it all. We're just along for the ride.

Yuli:

Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. So, speaking of spirits, where do you think your spirits are guiding you? Do you have a clue of the vision, or you're just kind of like following the direction?

Maria:

right now. Where do I think my guides are taking me?

Yuli:

Yes.

Maria:

Well as someone who has never had a psychic reading until my mother passed and I was well into my 40s. Suddenly I was introduced to a man who I call my spiritual father and my spiritual mother had nobody guiding me and so I have many conversations. I'm also attuned to the Akashic records. I just did a reading for a friend this morning. She wanted to test some places. She thought she was moving. So I consult the records for my business the book book of life, or those who don't know what the Akashic records are. It's a place in the spirit realm where we as souls have a book of all lifetimes and even our businesses have books and all of our creations and you can go there. And you can go there and access information and get downloads. But as far as my guides I have gotten a few readings, and early ones did not predict this business, because they said I would have gone running for the hills I hadn't healed yet. I had a major fear of failure. And what did that show up? As I loved acting my whole life, I studied it as a child, I was great at it. I was in acting school at Emerson and two famous kids came up and they're like I don't even know why I'm going to this school. I got gigs lined up and I'm like I'm going to wait tables the rest of my life. I better quit. And I quit everything that was a risk for me and did everything that was an easy nail it. I was just so entrenched in fear. So I had to heal the fear and I had to heal the history that was informing the fear. And that took a bit. And as I healed I was allowed to see more and more of this vision. And, as my spirit partner, gaia Goddess says, you have to take Maria to the next step so she can see the far ahead of her. Had I been shown the whole staircase again, like I said, I would have never done it. I mean, I would have just been immobilized by fear. So I have had a lot of downloads about what this business is doing. I'm also writing. I wrote a book portion of a musical I plan to someday produce. I have had a lot of downloads about what this business is doing. I'm also writing. I wrote a book portion of a musical I plan to someday produce. I have a musical background.

Maria:

I believe that you know.

Maria:

I claim that I'm here for the divine feminine awakening on the planet. And whatever way I can get that message out, whether it's through my book or through the business, or through healing, or through writing or whatever, I'm here to do it. And again, it's pretty big and that doesn't come from a place of ego. I want to be careful with my words and not say it's maybe a lot or too much. I want to be conscious how I it. It isn't something like my ego would have chosen because she would have wanted to take it a little easier, but apparently this is something that I created and signed up for, like in the records and the Akashic records, long before I was even in a body.

Maria:

So I believe that I'm very led by spirit. I see myself first as a spirit more than anything as a soul, and I also relate to other people that way too, usually the people I resonate with I know I feel a very strong connection to. I might even have awarenesses of past lives with them. You know I can feel that there is something between us or whatnot. So spirit to me is just always guiding me and sometimes it's kind enough to give me the blueprint and the confirmation that I need to keep walking this walk.

Yuli:

Beautiful, and you touched on a very interesting subject that I think a lot of our listeners can relate to is stepping up as a community leader.

Yuli:

It's not easy for many healers, right, and there's so many emotional blocks around it, right, especially people that have those gifts and their empaths and then they're here to serve the community, but at some point a lot of them getting, especially these days when we need more leaders, we need more feminine leaders, we need more spiritual leaders, a lot of them being called on this mission to step up from just being the beautiful solo practitioner that helps people to become this community leader who also leads people in their own journey of transformation.

Yuli:

And it's not easy for many of them because suddenly it's a different energy, right, because, and especially in our society, where leadership is perceived as something very masculine, because those are most of the examples we see these days still, it's changing very slowly. But if you think about leadership, I think for a lot of people, what comes to mind first is masculinity and and power, and it's not words that a lot of people in the healing and spiritual space are very comfortable with. So how did you overcome that block and how did you come to the place that you were ready to step up as the leader of this community.

Maria:

That's an interesting question. Well, firstly, I'm a Leo and, if you know, Leos are born leaders and I always wanted to be the boss. In school I sat in the front row. You know there is an element to my personality that can be comfortable in the spotlight as a musical theater, singing, dancing and those luckily for me, you know, now that I make reels and there are social medias asking me to do dancing pieces, I'm like, okay, I really don't want to, but I'm not that uncomfortable with it, so it's served me.

Maria:

No-transcript. Oh, there's something to this meeting before I even started filming content. So it's just coming through me without having to go into my head too much or work too hard, because I'm in the flow state with this business. So it's flowing to me because I trust it and maybe because I've healed enough for that to happen and I have a lot of assistance. And then, as far as leading the team that I'm working with right now, it's been an adjustment for me because there is a certain amount of boundary setting you need to have. There is a certain amount of masculine energy you do need to have, and for a while I was very reluctant to step into that because I had experienced through the masculine a lot of trauma. So I avoided the masculine energies and felt more comfortable with the feminine. But I realized that to truly be in balance you have to be able to work with both right. You could still be a woman, beautifully balanced in her masculine and feminine, and still be feminine. So that is one of the opportunities my business has afforded me as a spiritual teacher.

Maria:

The business has been a spiritual teacher and has challenged me to. My executive coach says you're too nice, Maria, You're too nice. And I'm like, yeah, I kind of have to get a little tough on this one and that doesn't feel so comfortable at the beginning. But with everything, the more you practice the easier it gets, especially when you see the results that come out of it. And if you avoid it it'll get harder and harder and harder.

Maria:

Because I also had that experience where I was avoiding dealing with a situation with someone that worked for the company who was also a friend, and it haunted me and I was really eaten up over it and then finally I just got slammed and I was like finally I just made the decision. It was the easiest decision I ever made because I had been pushed so hard by the universe to do it, and I didn't want to. So one of the lessons is you can make it easier, you can make it hard. Which way do you want it? Just get the lesson a little earlier, so you don't have to go through it over and over and over again.

Yuli:

That's a solid advice. And no, you mentioned social media in your conversation and, first of all, I'm really inspired and impressed by all the amazing content that you create and you know all those beautiful reels of videos. If you guys haven't followed Gaia Goddess Instagram yet, please do so, Because Marie is really and your team, I guess creating some beautiful and inspiring content. Marie is really and your team, I guess creating some beautiful and inspiring content, and I know this content doesn't come easy. It always looks very effortless, right, but here we love to talk about behind the scenes of the business. So I would love to get any of your kind of learnings, lessons, any strategies that you implement, something that you saw that is working better, Because I think social media is another big area where healers are struggling how to approach, how to show up, how to overcome some of those limitations, what kind of content you create, how to make it so effortlessly beautiful as you do. So please share your wisdom.

Maria:

Well, thank you. Firstly, I'd just like to mention the IG handle is Gaia Goddess Lifestyle. That was what was available at the time, so that's what we went with and it's been a journey. I myself do not consider myself techie and not a big social media person user consumer, so I had a personal handle prior to launching this business, but the only reason why I created it was because I was volunteering at a homeless shelter Reiki and meditation and sound healing and I wanted people to be aware so they could volunteer too, and that's the only reason why I started that Instagram back then not to post pictures of my birthday or my son graduating from college.

Maria:

I'm just, you know, I feel like social media it's just wasn't, just didn't resonate with me so much, but having to do it for a business, it can be a full-time job and really something to figure out, and so I have been lucky to work with people that understand it, that can make recommendations that piece it together, beautiful people working with me that guide me, that understand marketing and understand social media and the algorithms and what's trending and yada yada. I had the experience of working with a couple of people that weren't working out in the very beginning, so I got to see what doesn't work. What doesn't work is having someone create social media for you that doesn't know how to spell, that doesn't speak English as their first language. You know, like the obvious things. Find somebody who can help you If you can't do it all yourself. Find someone who can help you. Make sure that they understand that they have the voice of your brand, that they understand you. It's really important where we've gotten to today. The people that are managing have the voice. They understand me too. They understand when my voice is coming through something. For instance, I filmed two dancing pieces in nature this weekend and I sent them to both people on the team that are working on reels and one got back and she said I picked this one because it showed your personality more.

Maria:

So you want to reflect what is authentic, what feels real, because if you try to create a trending thing, that'll go viral and you're just being like not yourself, people pick up on that right. So you want to be authentic and you want to be coming from your heart and I think, again, very true to your brand. On brand and you know, again, I'm not an expert I do rely on people who guide me, but there's also a time when you're inspired and there are some times when you just not. So try to flow with it when you're inspired and stack the content ahead of time, because if you have to, day after day, film something, that's really going to feel difficult and it's going to block your creative flow. So I would also say to work with your creative flow and know, as a woman, we work with our cycles. When am I in flow state? When am I? When's it going to be best for me to create this content? What's the messaging? And maybe you can also. I will say reposting's a thing you know, remember. You can repost after a certain amount of time. Use the same footage, put it together differently. Try to economize on the time until you've grown big enough that it's not an issue Once our membership is launched.

Maria:

We have so much filmed content from our on-demand content and behind the scenes and interviews with all of my collaborators. None of that has been used yet. But once we launch, I have so much to add to the grid and I think everything will then come together differently, and so on and so forth. If you have a podcast, clips of your podcast, quotes that you say that you know, shine your voice or some, or even read from a book. If you've, if you've read a book and there's something really profound you want to share, read it to your audience. Like there.

Maria:

There are different ways, I don't know. I do all of those things because it just feels real to me, because to me it all comes together. What, what have? What has taught me the teachers, the spiritual teachers, the people I follow, the messaging that impacts me. I want to share it with my community. And it's very challenging, though, because it's saturated. It's very saturated. Social media is very saturated. I think it puts a lot of people off, but I don't know that you could do a business today without it. So how are you finding?

Yuli:

it Totally agree with you. I think to me is something you mentioned that really brought up this thought is I think there's this misconception among people that you produce all of the content is produced live right and people say, how does she have time to post every day? And I think a lot of people don't realize that a lot of us create a lot of evergreen content. This is what we marketers call evergreen content right Content that can be posted tomorrow or a year from now or a month from now and still be very relevant right. And this creating this evergreen content in batches, like you said in the flow state, when you feel inspired, taking that day and saying, okay, today I'm going to create my, you know, all those short videos that I can repurpose for the next couple of months, and then just scheduling it in.

Yuli:

I think that's what I personally found a lot of relief in that strategy and just dealing with social media for a certain time of the month, just like our cycle, and getting it out there, planning it out and of course there's some changes sometimes, but mostly just kind of planning it out and being done with it, because what I found, if I'm there every day, it sucks me in.

Yuli:

You just end up investing a lot of energy in that space and, as much as we as business owners have to be there, it can be your business. We're not in the business of creating content on social media. We're not in the business and feeding the algorithms, right. We're in a business of building our business and then putting some of the outcomes and outputs and beautiful creative content on it. But it was really I felt, and I'm a savvy person, but I was sucked in into it for a moment and I had to pull myself out and say wait a second, you can be every day on social media as a business owner. It's just not sustainable, especially when you're growing a business where you're still kind of like in the trenches. Right, there's just so much and it can be the place that takes up too much of your time.

Maria:

No, and it's not. You know, social media is not going to correct a business that's not thriving. It's not going to correct a business that maybe is ill-timed. So right now we're in our pre. It's a relaunch, really, but we're in our pre-relaunch. So up to now we haven't had a product to sell. Up to now we haven't had a lot of interesting things to show that the business is actually doing behind the scenes. And so you know, we're doing great with what we have, which is establishing the voice of the brand.

Maria:

But I agree with you, I think you have to be very careful of not getting sucked in, as you said, and creating a balance and knowing that you have to focus on your business being successful. And then the social media kind of grows with it. But there's only so much you can do, as you're developing something, as you know, Yuli. I mean, you're still developing and I'm still developing, and you know, when the time comes, that people are using it, benefiting from it, talking about it, sharing it, and it's making a difference in the world. All of a sudden, more and more and more people are following, because there's a lot more interest, right?

Yuli:

Absolutely. And no, I feel like, just on a social media topic, we could talk forever because there's just so much and I think it's such a it's a world on its own. But bring us back to community. As we wrap up, I can't believe we're almost running out of time. Such a pleasure to chat with you and we have so many things in common. So can we just circle back to the community aspect? And we talked about all those different channels, right, using social media and stepping up as a leader, using your own persona to attract. What do you feel like, at the end of the day, is going to drive your community? What's really going to form it? And maybe it's all of the above, but do you feel like there is something that might create that like tipping point, and something that maybe our listeners can use as an advice as well as they think about creating their own communities?

Maria:

Well, as far as the community of healing that Gaia Goddess is creating, I believe that it's the confluence of in-person and people, seeing people coming together, but also feeling the effects of working with the content, the healing content, and feeling the effects of jumping onto a group breathwork, where all of those people on that call are members, and some of them are going to this retreat at Omega, where then there's an app where I've made five new best friends. You know how, when you go away and you do something spiritual, you meet people and then you stay in contact, so those become part of those people. Those connections become another part of your community, your friends and your supporters, and that person you call when you're experiencing something through hey, how are you feeling with this lunar eclipse or whatever, what's going on in your field, and anyway. So I think that there won't be just one thing that will encourage the community to grow. It will be many things coming together and I think that what will bring everybody together is the common thread and the common desire to heal and to explore.

Maria:

How do you do that and how do you do that in community? So, whether it's an online community, in person, sometimes online, some in person, but it's really the healing, the desire to heal, the desire to expand that will encourage the growth. And then that community gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And there's so many facets to the community as well. It's not just healing. It's women in financial literacy, it's women in business, it's women working with indigenous tribes, women healing the earth. It's so many ways to heal ourselves and the planet.

Yuli:

Well, Maria, thank you for bringing your energy and your mission to this world. I just feel, like you know, so inspired by what you do and would love to stay connected. And you know, our business is so intertwined together and there's already so many synchronicities, and I would love for you to call me next time you go to an Omega retreat, because I go there often another synchronicity. Thank you so much for sharing and good luck with the relaunch and everything you do.

Maria:

Thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure reconnecting and having this wonderful conversation. I'm so grateful to be a part and to have met you and connected to you. Have a great rest of the day.

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