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Episode #180 From Fashion To Energy:Colleen McCann On Glamour Magic, Crystals, And Real-World Healing

• Tracy searight • Episode 180

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What happens when a fashion insider discovers that statement pieces are energetic tools and color is a form of medicine? We sit down with Colleen McCann, designer, stylist, author of Crystal RX, and the creator of Style Rituals, to explore how intention, wardrobe, and ritual can shift your field, sharpen your intuition, and support deep healing. From a raw, unfiltered spiritual awakening in New York City to building a practice that blends glamour and grounded technique, Colleen brings practical wisdom for anyone walking the path.

We talk about the myths that trip up new practitioners—especially the idea that a weekend certificate makes a healer, and why lineage, mentorship, and daily self-care matter more than any title. Colleen shares how she chooses teachers, how to keep your energy clean when you work with clients, and why therapists have therapists and healers need healers. Tracy adds real-world stories about energetic hygiene, tech glitches during live sessions, and the surprising ways collective energy can reverberate through a home if it isn’t cleared.

Space and land clearing take center stage as we unpack how properties hold memory and why some rooms feel “off” until they’re intentionally reset. Colleen’s work spans private sessions, brand events, corporate creativity tune-ups, and pre-build land grids with architects and designers. We also dive into crystal talismans, color strategy, and the small, repeatable rituals that make your day steadier and your presence stronger—on camera, at ceremony, or in the boardroom.

If you’re a curious beginner, a seasoned master teacher, or a creative seeking a reset, this conversation offers tangible tools, honest stories, and a reminder that your practice will evolve as you do. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves crystals or design, and leave a review to tell us which style ritual you’ll try this week.

Colleen is here to be your personal Energy Stylist. She created Style Rituals to be a fun and practical experience to get grounded, heal issues, practice self-care, build better boundaries, tap into your intuition & more. After straddling the fashion & wellness industries for the last 20 years, she developed her own brand of glamour magic by blending her experiences as a designer, stylist, brand consultant, healer, mentor, teacher, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur. 

Her journey to becoming The Energy Stylist started in New York City.  She was working in fashion & realized that statement necklaces had superpowers, colors worn influenced a person’s energy & that her intuition could be used to heal herself & inspire others. She ended up jumping high heels first down the mystical rabbit hole, traveling all over the world studying healing modalities & eventually connecting all her skills & passions to found Style Rituals.

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SPEAKER_00:

This is Ready Step Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work, from the curious beginner to the season master teacher, welcoming all systems, all images, all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination. And on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than host and I too of traveling, learning, and supporting others on this journey as well. With that said, I am your guide, Tracy C Wright. And this is Ready Set Reiki. Reiki blessings, my beautiful Reiki family. How wonderful it is for another journey. But before I begin on this journey, I'd like to invite you to Reiki Business Collective. Now, this is free, this is on Facebook, Christian Standing Stone. He is someone who is out here helping support and encourage everyone in Reiki in energy work. This is about sharing, supporting, and serving. It is just an invitation for you to know that you are not alone. When I began my energy work journey, I felt I was on an island. And you know, it was a Google search that took me to a Reiki school, and then I a whole new world opened up. So if you are that curious beginner or even that seasoned master teacher, this is a great place to come. And everyone is super supportive. You can promote all the things that you do, uh, meet some really wonderful people of all different varieties, all different skill levels, all different experiences. So check out the Reiki Business Collective on Facebook. So back to this journey here as your guide through Ready Set Reiki. What a wonderful, amazing guest I have here, Colleen McMahon. Now, let me tell you about her. Now, here's a little secret. I was a tomboy, I was not into fashion, all these things. However, I have two daughters that are fashion nieces. I mean, amazing. I tell everybody that they suck the beauty out of me, but they would love this. I told my daughter about Colleen, and she's like, whoa, this is fascinating. Now, Colleen created style rituals to be a fun and practical experience to get grounded, heal issues, practice self-care, build better boundaries, tap into your intuition and more. Now, after straddling the fashion industry and wellness industries for the last 20 years, she developed her own brand of glamour magic by blending her experiences as a designer, stylist, brand stylist, healer, mentor, teacher, coach, author, and a serial entrepreneur. I love it. Isn't it amazing? I mean, so much wealth of knowledge here. Now, her journey to becoming the energy stylist started in New York City. She was working in fashion and realized that statement pieces had superpowers. Colors worn influence a person's energy, and her intuition could be used to heal herself and inspire others. Now she ended up jumping high heel first down the mystical rabbit hole, traveling all over the world, studying healing modalities, and eventually connecting all of her skills and passions to creating style rituals. So let's give a real ready-set Reiki. Welcome to Colleen. Welcome. This is so exciting. My daughters are going to be thrilled by this. They are intuitive. I believe they're healers. So they're going to be right into this. Hi, Tracy. Thank you for having me. Beautiful. So let's begin our journey together. So I told our listeners a little bit about you, but I know there is a way more. You you brought the word up rabbit hole, right? So tell us a little bit about yourself.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, I have uh been exploring and adventuring in the mystical rabbit hole for about 20 years. 10 years first was all training. And the last 10 years I've been in business professionally at style rituals. And as you had mentioned, I started out in the fashion industry, and it was um, you know, my late, my late, I was in my late 20s, probably like 27 or so, and um my sad and return started kicking in for anybody that doesn't know what that is, when you hit your first sad and return in your late 20s, um, it tends to flip your life upside down, which chaos creates great change, right? So, and chaos and change doesn't exactly have to be bad, but you start to see people like switching jobs, moving across the country, having babies, getting married, um, weird things happening that are causing great life shifts or great um, you know, maybe mental, physical, emotional, spiritual awakenings. And mine happened to be in the spiritual department, and I um had all of my spidey senses kind of come online within about two weeks, and that happening in one of the loudest, most condensed cities in the world was uh really challenging. And I can tell you, I started hearing hearing voices in a bodega in the middle of the night, and then I started watching ghosts walk through my apartment walls in Brooklyn into my neighbor's apartment. I was having premonition dreams, just knowing things that I couldn't explain. And the real cherry on top was um being on the New York City subway, and I had many different people come up to me and say, Hey, stranger, excuse me, I have a message for you. Um you are a healer, and your whole life is about to change. So that's where it started.

SPEAKER_00:

Isn't that something? I mean, I have been to New York a couple of times and the energy there, so it does not surprise me that you have let's call them friends, yeah, show themselves. Oh my goodness. Well, what amazing uh and especially when people are coming up to you and telling you, you know, you have this gift, you have this ability, and it's just it just surprises you. It's like, really? You know, me?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I didn't I didn't understand what they were talking about because I grew up in the Midwest and in a strict Irish Catholic family, they're just not part of the curriculum, and it you know, I I I think people always show spiritual awakenings, this like aha moment, and like the lights really big and angels are singing, and I literally was like, fuck my life, um, crying in the corner, running away from whatever this was that I didn't have words for. And you have to remember this is about 20 years ago, so we don't have we have no social media except Facebook is kind of around. Um, you can't hashtag healer, Reiki, shaman, crystals, any of these words. You can't go searching for things, yeah. It it doesn't exist yet. So I was very much alone on my own island and completely like, okay, um, am I crazy?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I was it made me think like, remember my space? That wouldn't have been a place to show the crystals and the healing. We just had such limited resources then, and and you know, people think it's all magical, and you're gonna walk around in like a white dress with a robe and be like, you know, kumbaya, and it's really just rocks your world. I mean, you lose friendships and your family questions you and you're like, what's happening? And oh my goodness, and getting so overly emotional, right? But it's returning you to your true authentic nature. So all this beautiful experience that you have, and we're looking back to where you began on this journey with energy work. So, do you think that the energy work found you or did you find energy work?

SPEAKER_01:

I think we I think we collided.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. We've we found we found each other, I guess is the best way to put it. And I would say it was it's something that's uh completely changed the course of my life, my career, who I hang out with, how I view the world, what my daily practices are. It really did shift everything for me and for the better, even though it was definitely a bit of a rocky start.

SPEAKER_00:

Beautiful. Yeah, it's amazing once you get connected and you start shifting and changing that the people that slowly move away, right? And you know, then the people show up. I mean, I moved from Pittsburgh to El Paso, and within a pretty quick time, like the people showed up. And it doesn't matter that it's been like only three years, they feel like I've known them lifetimes. It's like, wait a minute, like you know, and you get closer and more supportive than family. You probably found that too in your industry, too, that you have strangers who are more supportive to you than cousins and other relatives, so it's just amazing. Absolutely. So as you're in this journey, 20 years, the modalities creating your own modality. What are some of the misconceptions that you're finding about energy work? Whether misconceptions that you had or that people come up to you and share with you.

SPEAKER_01:

I think a common misconception is that you go away for a weekend training in a modality, just pick one because there's so many, and you become whatever that thing is. It really, this is a a daily practice, a live practice, something that stays with you. And I that always makes me really nervous when I see people that have um not in depth explored whatever they're very interested in, and um already um, you know, kind of billing themselves as this thing without proper experience or training, whether that's through a former formal school or a mentor of some kind. So I think that there's a misconception with how much it takes, how much work and practice it takes to uh kind of cultivate and maintain what you're doing, because you also um as a practitioner have to keep your energy clean and live in a certain way when you're when you're working with somebody.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think people get so excited and then they're so, I think in the United States, so money conscious that, oh, look, I found this online training. It is$9.99. I can become a master in like three days, right? And then they just jump in and then they jump out and they're like, okay, I am ready to heal, heal, heal. And then, you know, the energy does take care of it, it will shut it down. I don't think people get that, you know, you need to get your things in order, your house clean before you can help others because things pick up, you know, unintentionally. I've gone into situations being come feeling completely, totally repaired, and something follows me home, or something happens to my dog, or something happens in the house. I've been doing this like 30 days of Reiki on Inside Timer, and you know, clearing things, doing all the things I know to do, and this starts breaking, and that starts breaking, and this starts falling. I'm like, hmm, right? What is happening here? Right. Because the energy has to go somewhere. You have this collective of a hundred people that are watching you, right? And that energy is transmitted, whether it is in person or it's online, and it's got to go somewhere, right? So shooting here and breaking this. I mean, big things were breaking. My laptop broke, my TV broke, I mean, my dishwasher broke. And, you know, my reaction to it could have been like, ah, but he'll okay, this is what this is. We got to do a little bit more cleansing. We're we're aware. So, and it this is why you need someone. Now, I don't want to put down any online learning because when you become that master teacher, there are some great, fantastic resources. But when you start out, please get a teacher if it's online and they're physically like you and I are talking to guide you through it to ask questions because it can be quite interesting. And then, you know, you go from working on yourself to helping others, and then you grow as a business, and then you come to a point where you have to shift and change and may pivot as well. So there's a whole lot to this, other than just you know, placing hands and I'm going to lay it on you and make everything okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, absolutely. And you know, I I was not informed when I started this, and um, with my journey, I ended up studying once a week with the teacher privately for three years, and other mentors came into my life and all kinds of modalities, and then like the next big training was going to a big school for three years, so I got to learn in a wildly different environment instead of one-on-one. But like the whole rub of all this is like what they don't tell you and what's so important. And I didn't know, as you mentioned, Tracy, like the self-work, like you have to understand who you are, understand your shadows, start to clear your shit, right? We all have shit, that's why we're the human body. Like, healers are not perfect and don't have perfect days and perfect lives and the whole thing, right? We are dealing with all the all the normal human stuff. Um, but it's so important to, I think, in my opinion, to like get yourself as like clean as possible, understand your shadows, know why you're being triggered this way, know how to be a uh the best cle channel for your client that you can be, and like step out of the way, right? You're not there to um input your opinions, you're there as a channel, right?

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And just you know, don't get so hyper-focused on the price, right? I mean, and do your homework on the people too. Like if someone has a lot of credentials and a lot of experience, they're priced that way for a reason, right? And so uh versus like, okay, well, I'm gonna get this for nine bucks. And again, once you become that master teacher, that might be a fantastic resource. There might be some great things in there, a little extra tools, but to have that guidance of that physical teacher in the lineage, that's how it's supposed to be, from teacher to teacher to help you and be that support too. So you're honoring the system as well. And you know, when you think about it, it's really the ego where you're like, I'm gonna go out and heal and I'm gonna save the world and put my super cape on, right? You know, but you figure Superman, look at the challenges he had, right? He had his kryptonite that took him down, right? So everyone out there has a kryptonite and the trigger, and we have tools in our energetic toolbox for when it comes up, okay. And if that doesn't work, we have the intelligence and we healed our well made friends with our ego that we can go to those resources to get help as well. So, well, this one is you know, you're out there, you're helping others here with their ritual, you're the spiritual stylist here. Uh, what has been the biggest challenge or struggle you have faced in your own healing journey?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my gosh, the biggest or uh most challenging thing I would have to say was honestly running away from this. Oh yeah. I I just and the more I ran, the more it came after me, the louder it got, the the weirder the things that were happening around me. Like I I couldn't ignore it. And um once I actually started to interact what was going on around me, make make commitment to go to a class, make commitment to study with a teacher, read about something, right? Just believe it was happening. I think that was that was my my biggest challenge was uh being the biggest skeptic. And of course, for there seasoned healers out there that are listening, and really wise advice for people that are just getting into this. Um, whatever your big life challenges are or big mirrors that you have, um, those are the clients that walk through the door because that's things that you have faced and you've gone through the challenge and you kind of understand all that. Even right, I see people that have very similar family dynamics to me. And that doesn't even need to be like ancestral trauma. It could be like, I'm the oldest of three girls. So I get people that come in that are the oldest sister, right? And I'm like, oh, here we go. I know all about this one. Um, or people that worked in fashion, or people that lived in Brooklyn, or people that also had a really hard awakening. So I think it's important to kind of work through ancestral traumas, shadows, um, figure out who you are, because whatever all of that is is going to come and knock on your door.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I I it makes me go back to when I was uh you know doing teacher trainings and the groups of people, you'll see the similarities. They're either all teachers, all nurses, all getting a divorce, all kinds of things that you've kind of danced around with. And it's like, isn't this interesting that the energy works in a way that it kind of brings it together? And it makes me think of um last week I got to see Wicked Good, and uh, you know, Glinda was always people pleasing. She was that political pawn in the movie, and uh she was supposed to be, you know, Glinda the Good, but the magic couldn't work. So when you think about it, that's the block because she wasn't her true authentic self. Where Alphaba was her true authentic self, and she made reality bends, right? To conform around her. So, you know, Wicked's kind of an interesting way of looking at things too, with your what you need to heal, right? And what you got to work on and who you can be your true authentic self with. And it even goes back even further to like the original um Wizard of Oz about, you know, following that yellow road with your solar plexus and the emerald city being your heart, all roads lead to your heart. Absolutely beautiful. So when it is time for you to get an energetic tune-up, what are some qualities you look for a Reiki practitioner? And if you do not get energetic tune-ups, what are some qualities that you look at as very valuable for a teacher, for you, like who attracted you were attracted to the teacher that you chose? Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, so I jumped down a lot of rabbit holes, as I mentioned. I'm I'm a Sagittarius rising, so I'm like incredibly curious, incredibly adventurous. Let me go learn about everything. And I've always been a big believer, and I would tell any of my students or clients this of like take what serves you and and leave the rest behind. Um, I would say when I was picking schools, trainings, teachers, mentors, anything that falls into that umbrella. Um, obviously, first of all, there's a intuitive gut feeling that you have to follow that piece of like, I've got to show up here for some reason, even if I totally don't understand where this is taking me. And I think there's also a piece of of looking at um, as you mentioned, Tracy, what is this person's lived experience that they've they've had? Have they been teaching a long time? Have you know, who are who are they holding space for? Does it even make sense for me to to be in this this training? So I think I think what's really important is to like do your research both internally and externally, right? You're like looking at all the like facts and figures about this person, this school to see if it's a good fit. And you're also internally like, does this does this resonate with me? Because just because, right, just because these two other people you know went to this school and did did this with this person, but your body's just like, oh, that's just not for me. Yeah, right. That might not be the right person, the right lineage, the right uh type of healing modality that I'm supposed to engage in for some reason. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

And I even do that like with hairdressers and dentists and doctors. And I remember years ago when I had to find a doctor, and this is before all of this. I looked up in the phone book, right? Who remembers phone books? I do, and I I saw Dr. Mary Baker. I'm like, wow, that's a really nice name. And that's how I picked my doctor because it was just something about the name and and be careful who lays hands on you, right? And especially someone who's going to be your mentor uh and support you through these times, and you want someone that can be available and say, hey, here's my number, contact me anytime with any questions. I mean, I got trained five years ago in this one particular modality, and I can still reach out to that teacher with a question because things come up too. I don't have all the answers, and then I'll work with a client and I'm like, okay, and then I'll ask someone else, and like, I've never had that happen. Then I asked somebody else, I've never had that happen. I'm like, hmm, this is interesting. Like, I, you know, the people that who are have walked a little further on the journey than me. So things do come up that are just very interesting. I had uh a student that she messaged me at three in the morning and she said, Hey, I think your spirit guide's here. I'm like, excuse me. And she said, and I thought, well, that's interesting. And that was the question I asked my teacher. Did you ever lose your spirit guide to one of your students? And then at first I was a little offended. I'm like, oh, they love me. Like and the student described what I had seen. She didn't even know. I'm like, I I know who that is. That is, well, they're here. I'm like, do you want me to ask them to come back? No, they can stay. So that was unusual, right? So yeah, totally unusual. Yeah, but you have to be healed enough to like that took me a minute. I'm like, okay, breathe. They must have a purpose. And maybe that guy came to me and supposed to go to her. And that's a little bit of internal work there. So absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

And Tracy, you really bring up such a great point about like having having an army of mentors right behind you. And I think about right, just because just because you work in the healing industry doesn't mean you're healed, doesn't mean you have all the answers, doesn't mean all these things, right? Like you're you're you're still working through stuff like everybody else. And um I I I think about the thing, like therapists have therapists, right? Yes. Healers should have other healing mentors that they can go to and and and talk about things, some kind of like trusted processor that to your point, you're like, what happens when you know my my spirit guy goes on walkabout?

SPEAKER_00:

Like, yeah, what is this? Yeah, yeah. And I mean my and I have actually have a new mentor because I'm even I have all this experience and I have different mobileities, I still keep learning. So I'm entering, I've entered into another kind of three, four-year uh mentorship like teaching program. And my first one, I had an apprentice several years ago. I apprenticed off of a master teacher, and she had said things um that ended up that I needed in the future. And so that taught me I really need to listen. And one of the things that she shared was, you know, as her father was dying, um, she changed the way she was giving Reiki. It was like, I'm saying, I want to save you, I want to save you to this is his journey. I'm I need to do that transition. Little did I know, a couple of years later, I would be in the same situation with my father. And the one day I came into the hospital and I said, How are you doing today, dad? And he said, Just shoot me. And it was in that moment, because he was getting 24-hour Reiki at that point, you know, that I realized my teacher's words, my mentor's words were meant for me. That story was meant to help me. And then I realized I need to shift this for him to transition. He he's he's ready to go home. And um that's why you need that mentor, because those messages are there to help you. And I could have just given my dad a Reiki till the end and not ready, but I had to make peace and heal myself because I wasn't really ready to let him go. But absolutely, that's unconditional love where you know what he needed to go. So that's part of the learning process as well, and and why you need uh not why you need a really great strong teacher, loving teacher, one that you resonate with when you feel their energy. So, as a serial entrepreneur, what advice would you give someone who is just entering this spiritual work?

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, that's a that's a great question. Um, so somebody that's entering spiritual work and probably wants to like let's say start a business, start a small practice, go out on their own somewhere in there, right? I think something big that I learned was you never know how a modality is actually going to kind of shake out for you, I think. Um like for me, I went to a school that was extremely deep in hands-on healing. And I realized that I don't like hands-on healing. I don't like to I I can teach it, I know it in and out, I'm good at it. I also don't like doing it day in and day out, and I prefer doing things that are more divination-oriented and more a chat between people, right? More of a like therapy coach setting. It's just what I enjoy. But I had to go to school to learn to do that. So I would say don't go in with like a super hard plan about why you're there. There's been so many modalities I've studied that I'm like, hey, this is really cool, and I'm never professionally going to do this, but I'll take something and put it into my personal practice, or it's just something I needed to learn about for whatever reason. So I think having flexibility in how whatever this modality or modalities is is going to show up in your life, and to also let it change my um work in the world in the last 10 years within the healing and wellness industry has had several big shifts. It my practice does not look like it does the day I started it.

SPEAKER_00:

That's for sure. It's that ability to pivot. And I'm sure many of the practitioners who've been doing this 10, 20 years never imagined online, right? That was a big adjustment for some people. And like, what are we gonna do? But what a blessing it is because you know, we can connect, we can connect all over the world. But yeah, when I went in for, you know, Reiki level one, it was just to feel better, like things weren't working. I just was tired of grieving and getting upset, and I wanted to help my family, and I never imagined, and I was more into yoga, and so um we created like I created like feather sister yoga, and then it had to become wellness, and then ready set reiki came about. And I have people say, Well, you need like an umbrella, you need it, you should have just had ready set Reiki, but I have feather sister, now I've got two businesses, then I have beep beep the yoga jeep, now it's three, you know. I'm like, what's happening? Like, and you kind of want this one umbrella, so I'll often see someone like I'll give you an example like Reiki, Reiki lifestyles. Well, that's perfect, that's a whole thing, right? Oh my goodness, and I've got three different things here, right? And then that do I merge it? Do I keep it separate? But each has a different thing. But then when I look at my personality, I'm an Aries, right? Fire energy makes sense. So you're gonna pivot and change and question things, you're gonna upgrade your uh website, so just go with the flow on that, and it's necessary. You know, we have this shifting, changing, the world's changing. So we have to change as well. So yeah. So what books do you recommend?

SPEAKER_01:

Uh well, I recommend my book, Crystal RX. That's the first book I recommend. Um, so uh let's see, in 2018, Harper Collins asked me to write a book on crystals, which I was super excited and honored to do. And I really structured that book for beginners because I wanted people that were just getting into this and who didn't have a manual, like I didn't, when I was first learning crystals, that they could take away from this of like the must-have crystals and where to put them and and how to do a grid and how to make gem water and how to clear your crystals and how to clean them and what can't you put out under the full moon and all and all these different things. And since I have that background in fashion, I really styled it uh after a magazine. So there were a lot of interviews in there with people who worked all over um different industries with crystals so that I could show people I'm like, hey, if this doesn't work for you in this way, try this, right? There's a there's there's a thousand ways to do this. So I would definitely recommend my book.

SPEAKER_00:

Beautiful, beautiful, love it. I love it. So you have a lot that you're offering, all your experience. What services do you offer? Do you do classes, events, trainings? Tell us everything.

SPEAKER_01:

Sure. So as I mentioned, and you know, we're talking to people here if they're just on the healing journey and getting into this. Uh, when I started 10 years ago, my um work looked strictly like one-on-one in-person sessions in New York and Los Angeles. And then how did it pivot again? I got into doing things online. It was it was in the pre-COVID era I started doing online, so I felt very grateful. I already had that structure in place before the world changed. Um, so then that happened. Also, around that time, I got into doing very big events for brands. And again, I went where it felt natural. I've worked in fashion beauty and entertainment my whole career. So if there was like a makeup launch or a movie premiere or some kind of party for some press party, I would go and do um mini crystal readings at all these events, and people got to take the crystal and they got to take it home in a little style rituals gift bag, and it was really fun. So, from there, at that time I was kind of behind the scenes and learning more about space clearing work. So I'm learning, learning, learning, different ways of clearing homes and land. And also at that time, I got a little bit more into working with corporations and doing things that we would now call like a wellness Wednesday or doing small retreats with companies. Um, I can say no matter whether it's individual or in some kind of group setting, nobody ever calls me forward to work with them unless they're going through massive moments of transformation and transition. So whether that's somebody privately that, you know, birth, death, divorce, uh big job change, right? Like anything that could happen there, or a company that's like, hey, our creative team is stuck. Can you help them? Our C-suite's angry. We are starting a new division to a company and need some guidance on something. So it's always in great moments of transformation that I that's been like probably the only thread in my business, I would say. And um the space clearing has really taken off. I was I was very lucky. I I got a um big mention in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about my my work with land clearing, and that's gotten very, very interesting because again, that's pushed me into a realm that I'm working with people in their private homes or uh contractors. He he's got dirt, right? And I'm going to grid the land before he builds something, or working with interior designers, architects, um, who else? Real estate agent, which has gotten really interesting because I will go in and energetically clear a space before or after the house has been sold, depending on who the client client is. So yeah, um my work has really evolved and it and I will always let it continue to evolve.

SPEAKER_00:

Beautiful, beautiful. And I can't tell people how important it is to do that energetic clearing with the house. I actually, a few months ago, um when I moved from Pittsburgh to El Paso, my husband was already here, and my husband bought a home where I physically did not walk through, and I had dreams about it. I didn't, I was begging him to get out of it, and he's like, You're gonna love it. And I walk through the door, I'm like, oh no, hell no. And he wanted, yeah. And we he said, This, I picked this room as your yoga and Reiki room. And I said, I can't even walk in here. No, and I went to each room and I'm like, I'm gonna go into this one. He goes, It's one of the smaller ones. I said, I don't care. And I worked on that, but it was the land, and we live in an area very close to the border, and it took still three years to come in, and I would have the podcast, I would teach, I do trainings, and someone would say, You know, there's something in your house. Made friends with it. And I even had these conversations, you know, like, um, uh, I'm gonna take care of you till the next family. And my husband loved the house. I mean, he was so attached to this house, he would have left me for it, right? And I just couldn't understand that connection. And finally something shifted, and he's like, Okay, we can go. And I mean, I got out of there and I was interviewing a gentleman on here, and he had said after the uh our interview, he said, There's something in your land. I said, I know. He said, if you don't get your husband out of that house by August, he's going to have a heart attack. And I just went into that warrior Aries mode. I'm like, I gotta get him out and got him out. We moved out in June that cleared things, you know, and prayed. And like, hopefully, that other family, because my husband couldn't feel it. I had other people that walked through that couldn't feel it. But people that were in the spiritual world could feel it. So I'm like, okay, and let it go. So it's so important. So reach out when you're getting that new house, you're leaving, you're building. You know, I've heard people put crystals. Who was it? Tyler that actor. He they put Bibles in the land when before they built.

SPEAKER_01:

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_00:

So they put Bibles because it was an area down south, I guess, um, with slavery. So they they buried the Bibles in the land. So it's really, really important to clear that energy. And when I moved in here, the same person that told me to get my husband out, he said, Oh, there's three spirits in the new house, but don't worry, they're friendly, they're gonna help you. So there we go. So where can we find you? Where if we want to book this session, uh, how to get in touch with you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. So if you are New York or LA, I can see you in person. Otherwise, I work worldwide on Zoom, and you can book a session at style rituals.com, and I'm on all the socials at style underscore rituals.

SPEAKER_00:

Perfect. All right, well, this ends the first part of our journey, and here I'm gonna guide you into the second part where questions from listeners and Reiki students. So here we go. Number one, where do you see the energy stylists creating or manifesting in the next year? So our year's coming up, the year of the horse, 2026 here.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, so yes, the the fire horse, which we know is like 2026, is the number one year, it's a year of new beginnings, fire is you know, transformation, horses are like fast moving. And I will say I have a lot of fun things coming up that I'm not able to talk about yet. Fair enough, fair enough.

SPEAKER_00:

Number two, how important is self-care in healing work? You mentioned healing and high heels.

SPEAKER_01:

Self-care is the most important thing in healing work. If you don't show up for yourself, you cannot show up for somebody else. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00:

Number three, can you share or talk about the most powerful piece that you have created, whether it was a jewelry or a physical item?

SPEAKER_01:

Um I haven't, well, and I don't want to confuse people, I haven't designed anything while I've been in the spiritual space. I used to be a designer and a stylist, so that was a really long time ago. So I haven't designed anything that I could share at this point. Like I don't own a crystal jewelry company, if that makes sense. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Is there any particular piece that you physically wear? Oh, well. That's that's what that one is. Yeah, so I think that's what they meant when they submitted it. Is something that you have. So creating is say, like I take this and I, you know, imbue it with the energy, you know, and maybe yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Sorry, it was I used to design so my brain went so of course, of course.

SPEAKER_00:

I got you. I'll design it. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01:

Gosh, I wish I could pick up the laptop and take you into my closet. So um, I have a whole area of jewelry. I am a massive fan of crystal talismans, and I wouldn't say that I have one that is the most powerful, but I'm a very uh practical person about energy work, and I wear something because that's what I need to wear today. For example, I have on a clear quartz right now, and we know that's amplifying. I'm wearing white, which is very amplifying because Tracy and I are sitting here talking, and I need to be seen and need to be heard and have my voice amplified. So I'm wearing something that's medicinal for the moment that you and I are in together. So I say I always, I mean, crystals and color I'm wearing with purpose. If I'm at a full moon ceremony, at a fire, I'm I'm in all black because in the traditions that I've studied with, it's traditional and for safety to wear all black to that. And hey, guess what? It's also practical because if sparks fly, there's dust everywhere, you're kneeling on the ground, you're on the you're in the dirt, you're in the sand. Like, don't wear white to a fire ceremony for practical reasons. It's the fashion stylist in me talking. Um so so yeah, I guess I I love my talismans. That would probably be my favorite spiritual pieces of buttons.

SPEAKER_00:

And I don't know if like I've been doing the podcast for a while. I think I'm up to like 179 uh episodes. And if people pay attention, I'm always wearing black when I sit down. So I always have a black shirt, something long sleeve, have my crystals. I was sharing before we began that I can always tell a really good um healer by my dogs. So my dogs, I can tell you, are so close. So calling's the real thing. They're right here on the laptop. So there we are. The gang's all here. The gang is all here, snoozing, snoring. There we go. So our lot, um, so that was our last question. As we were speaking, is there anything else you have forgotten or something that you want to share to let everybody know about you? Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01:

I I mean, I think we I think we talked about everything. Um anybody that does resonate with me, I'd be so excited to talk to you, whether it's for a one-on-one session or some type of little mentorship package, or you're just getting into the industry. I work with a lot of people that have just opened and are like, what am I doing?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Well, thank you, Colleen, for joining me on this journey. It has been so wonderful. My daughters are going to be so excited. They're big fashion, fashionistas. They love it. So color, and uh, I was doing something yesterday where I had to be on camera. There was a film crew, and I was like, Man, I wish my daughter was here to do my makeup. Well, thank you so much uh for joining us. Yeah, it's my pleasure, Tracy. All right, my wonderful listeners. If you'd like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out www.ready setreiki.com or check me out on social media. I post who's coming on, send me a question, get it here, and you can hear about it on Ready Set Reiki. So I'm Tracy Crite, and this has been Ready Set Free.

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