Money Flows Where Energy Goes: Why Entrepreneurs Get Stuck and How to Shift It

What if the reason your business isn't growing has nothing to do with your strategy and everything to do with your energy?

The truth is: your business is not a machine you operate. It is a living field that reflects you: your nervous system, your wounds, your beliefs, your capacity to receive. And money, rather than being a reward for suffering or a measure of worth, is energy. It flows where your field is open and stagnates where it is constricted.

If you have ever lain awake at 2am rebuilding your to-do list, felt your most creative self go quiet under the pressure of building something that matters, or wondered why trying harder keeps producing the same ceiling — this episode is for you.

This is not about doing less. It is about building from a completely different internal state. One that is regulated, resourced, and genuinely open to the abundance you have been working so hard to create.

In This Episode

• Why your business is always broadcasting — and what it's saying right now
• How your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies are all active business tools
• Why stress and pressure are not required for financial success — and what to use instead
• Five specific wake-up call signs that your field needs attention 
• Five energetic upgrades to shift what your business is reflecting back to you

Let's Talk: If something in this episode landed, if you felt recognized, or relieved, or ready, trust that. Send me an email at michelle@sageandstone.org, and let's find a time to talk. I am offering a 20-minute consultation.  This is not a sales call. It is an invitation to explore what has been challenging you and clarify the path forward.

Transcript

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So I have to start by sharing with you that we're all human, right? And I, not long ago, within the last couple years, caught myself. When it was too late, by the way, in a sort of delusional, entrepreneurial, crazy, crazy game where I created this whole huge program and sold it before it was finished. And i'm sharing this with you because I was crazy. I was a lunatic. For three months straight. I was spending every weekend with my head in my computer. Completely stressed out, trying to make videos, create content. It was madness. And that whole experience did create something really incredible and beautiful. And it was wonderful. And I worked with most amazing women. However, I'm here to, to share the wound from this so that you can also appreciate, why it was delusional, why it was crazy, because I was willing, honestly willing to burn burn myself out so harshly in order to create this thing and, and to help and to serve and to, to move forward in my business and create my business. And I was a lunatic. I was crazy. My family would attest. And so. I'm sharing this with you because there are really important parts to growing and creating anything in our life and just how we be in our life requires us to be both in our masculine and in our feminine. And I want to offer this little piece before we jump in here for you to take a look at this yourself and even use that lens as we go through this episode here today. That you have the masculine and the feminine and your energy and the masculine is all about pushing and forcing and will powering and making shit happen, getting it done. And the feminine is about alignment and flow, and it is about truly being an authenticity and truth and intuition and all that beautiful stuff. And we need both. If you run a business, your business needs both. It needs all parts of you, and it needs the feminine and the masculine in order to be successful. But when I woke up at 2:00 AM and that was the usual, and I was going over what I was gonna say in the video that I was gonna create the next day, I was crazed, right? I have been sleep deprived. And I remember sitting there thinking, oh my gosh, I did it. I did the thing that I learned a really long, long, long, long, long time ago to not do. Right. So as we work through this and talk about this today, I want you to have compassion for our, your programming and how it's gotten you, wherever it's gotten you. Some of it's good, some of it's great and some of it's really hard. And I noticed that I, the girl, me, who once built a business off simply sitting with a calendar that was empty, putting some fake names in it, and telling my husband that these people are gonna come and see me, and that was my business plan. That's how I jumped into my, practice. And guess what? Those women came and saw me. I had like five Catherines join well, there was a Kathy, I took all versions. Kathy, Catherine, Kathy with a K, Kathy with a C, right? So like I had like five of them that signed up because the universe and I were in, in, in cahoots. We were, speaking the same language. We were working together on my business, right? And so when I looked at where I was, where I had gotten to in terms of my expansion, in terms of growing, I recognized, you know, at two o'clock in the morning, I had an epiphany that, holy shit, I have created the thing that I knew was absolutely the worst thing for me. And now as I'm moving forward and creating new things, I start with every person I meet, especially coaches I work with, and I tell them, I, by the way, just so you know. I am absolutely 100% not willing to burn out. I'm just not willing. It's not an option. It's not a possibility. As soon as I catch it, I'm gonna take care of it. And that is where we're starting because today's episode is for you. If you've ever suspected that the hustle that you've been doing isn't actually the answer, but you haven't quite given yourself permission to actually believe that. You might hear that like, oh, you know there was, there's a lot about hustle culture, and you might have heard, that that's not good for you. Right? But what I'm here to tell you is that it is possible for you to be in the feminine and the masculine at the same time for you to. Move this beautiful thing that you wanna do in the world, whatever that is, and do it from a place of sovereignty and calm, and we don't have to be overwhelmed in order to grow. So today we are talking about your business as an extension of your energetic field. What that means, what it's broadcasting right now. Right? What is it saying to you or about you? And most importantly, how can you shift it? How can you make changes? So welcome back to Into the Work. I'm Michelle Erman, psychotherapist, coach, and someone who has personally done a lot of the work I'm about to describe. So let's go jump into it. I wanna start with a premise, and I want you to sit with it. Rather than immediately decide whether or not you agree or disagree, I want you to imagine, that your business is not separate from you, that it actually lives in your energetic field. Not metaphorically, not as a nice like idea, right? Not I guess, nice spiritual idea, but actually energetically imprinted and breathing and living off of your energetic field, everything your business produces. The offers that you create, the clients you attract, the revenue patterns you repeat, right? The thing, how you make money, how you be in the world. And if you don't have a business, honestly, this can still be really important for you to hear because this is literally how I also help myself heal. My Lyme disease, our health conditions are in our field. All the things that we're gonna talk about today around business can also be attributed to life. And so, buckle up because I think there's some really good inspirational stuff here for you to consider about where you're at in life and what you're doing. So imagine that all of this is emanating from a field, your field, right? And that field includes not just the conscious intentions, it's also about unconscious patterning. Okay? Your physical, your emotional, your mental and spiritual bodies. That's how we refer to it. When we look at the layers of your field, but most entrepreneurs, most most people building business, and most of us out there are building from only 10% of what's actually running the show. So the other 90%, the inherited beliefs about money, the wounds that fire every time someone doesn't have, doesn't buy something or doesn't show up or ghost you. The grief you haven't processed from a client who left out of nowhere or the fear underneath the rebranding that you keep like putting off, right? This is all in the field and it's broadcasting A message, a frequency. Your clients feel it. Your pricing re reflects it. The launch energy that you have, if that's something you do in your business, transmits it. This gap between what you say your business is and what your field says your business is, that gap is felt by everyone who comes into contact with you. Now, even if. They can't name it 'cause they probably can't. Right? There's like something off here. It doesn't feel right, especially if they can't name it. I would say. So this is not a criticism, this is honestly the most liberating thing that I can tell you. So please stay tuned because as we dig into this, you're gonna see how liberating this can be and how you can let go a little bit and really see, okay, if I'm not working to the point of burnout, how do I do this? So, and again, if you don't have a business in life, you're also looking at, utilizing this information as to most things in your life. And so it can all help in terms of how you're seeing, how you create the world. So let me break this down a little more because I want you to understand why this isn't just energy talk quote unquote, right? There's real science underneath this and there's real clinical observation from 20 plus years of working with women in transformation from me, right? And there's also bodies of science out there that have done some research we can actually see what your field looks like if you've been stressed. And we can see what, see what your field looks like after you've, uh, meditated or done yoga, right? We can actually see how it's restored and what it's supposed to look like. And so when we look at your business living in your field and your field is made up of your, again, physical body, your emotional body, your mental, the spiritual sides, all these layers, when any one of them is out of coherence, the whole field reflects it, and I believe so does your business. So let's talk about the physical body, the physical layer of your field. We can see when someone has a chronically dysregulated nervous system when your system is in a low grade state of alarm, you make decisions from scarcity. You set timelines from fear, you price from what will they accept instead of what is it worth? So your body is not separate from your business strategy, your nervous system state at the moment you write your sales page matters, right? If you're like, when I was rushing to get that program out, I was crazy. But I will say what I did do is I, I literally, I cleared my energy field every time I sat down because I knew I was crazy. I was like, I cannot appear crazy on this video that I'm creating, right? So I would become the vessel again. And I learned how to do that. And that is what actually got through. That's what made the program gold. That was huge. Part of my growing process is I can, I can learn how to do this and be the vessel still. I can be grounded and I can be open and I can just let the intuitive information come through me. However. Did I feel well with that level of stress? Like when you just keep saying, it doesn't matter. I'll sleep later, I'll rest later. I'll worry less later. Because your body is part of the field that your business lives in. It matters. So the mental, emotional body, that other layer there, we're gonna combine those two. That's where the inner critic lives. Okay, so the perfectionism that you have. The cognitive distortions, the all or nothing thinking, the catastrophizing that you do over something small, especially when we're super stressed, the stories you have been telling yourself since childhood about whether you are someone who gets to have what she wants, right? What you want, what you're trying to build, your mental and emotional body shapes what gets created and more critically, what gets withheld. And so the, the things you haven't done yet. The program you didn't put out or, the pricing you haven't changed. The things you're holding back on start showing up for you, right? So the spiritual body last, I just wanna say, that's our sense of connection, your trust in something larger than maybe the numbers, right? Your quarters revenue numbers, your capacity to be held. You know that that idea that we have to surrender to the outcome, the spiritual body is what allows that kind of leap, that intuitive safety, that intuitive sense of, uh, it's all gonna be okay, connected to something greater. And it is what keeps the vision alive when the metrics and the things that are happening in business are discouraging. So when the spiritual body is depleted, when you have lost the sense of meaning, when you're feeling disconnected from the calling, when you know your genuine alignment with the work that you're doing, when the business just becomes a job. A job that is also your identity and your income and your purpose is a particularly exhausting thing to be grinding through. It is really exhausting, and it does take a hit on our identity, on our income and our purpose. Right? It, it is very challenging to be depleted and disconnected from the spiritual body in our business, um, and to try to keep pushing through. So we have this field, we have this business, we have whatever it is, the work you're doing in the world. They are not separate systems. They are one integrated transmission. And right now, today, the field that you have is broadcasting something. And the question is what? And so we're gonna dive into this a little deeper and we're gonna, get to looking at that question. So I want to talk about money first because this is where I see some of the most charged, most complicated energy in the women I know or, or work with, um, in myself too at times. And I think it's time we give this a different frame entirely. And many of you have heard this, but it's, we have to hear it again. Okay? So here is what? Money is not. Money is not. A reward for your suffering. Money is not proof of worth money is not something you have to earn through exhaustion. Like it doesn't equate it like we, that's old school thinking. As you have to work yourself to the ground in order to be successful. And it is not something that exists in opposition to spirituality, to sensitivity, to depth, to true service. Here is what money is. It is energy. This is what you probably have heard, but needs to sink in deeper. Again, today, money is energy. It is a form of an exchange. It is a form of an energetic exchange. And like all energy, it flows, it stagnates, it responds to the field, it moves through, right? So like whatever's going on in the field, whatever's going on, what you're projecting out, what you're taking in, all of that affects money. And so when money flows, it means the exchange is coherent and value is moving, and trust is present and the field is, is open, and it's, it's in flow. So when money stagnates, you're probably thinking, okay, I need to look at what's going on here. I need to diagnose the problem. Is it the sales page? Is it the, the way I'm bringing in to people through this funnel, is it, is it the marketing? Where, is it going wrong? And I'm gonna ask you to take on a different viewpoint than that. And it's not that those things aren't good. They're, they're the masculine, right? We need the masculine guys. The masculine is that scaffolding that holds it all together. It is important. However, I want you to ask yourself this question. Where is the energetic block in the exchange? Is there a block that you have in your receiving? Many empathic, deeply giving women are extraordinary at transmission. They pour value into people. They just pour love into people. They pour so much goodness. They hold space, they show up fully, and then they flinch. When it comes to being paid for it fully without apology or without the immediate discount of like the unsolicited bonus that softens the ask, like, whatever we can give more of because it's really hard for us. To receive, right? That same woman who pours out deeply struggles with receiving, and I bet you this is you. If you're listening to this podcast, you likely understand this or have at some point in your life, maybe you've worked on it, but expanding your capacity to receive is not a personal development. Nice to have. Okay. It is a direct revenue move. It's one I'm working on. It's one that, a lot of the women that are out there like reevaluating their burnout are actually starting to look at, if you were in the world of being open to spiritual, um, ideas and spiritual understanding of abundance and the things that are occurring in the world, that you're like, wow, that I want some of that. That sounds really good. This right here is key. This is so important. Now, I also wanna ask, is the block, we're gonna identify the block. Here is the block in your belief about who you are in relationship to money. Because the story you inherited about whether money is safe, right? Are you a good person? If you have a lot of money, whether abundance is spiritual, um, whether wanting financial success makes you greedy or materialistic or somehow less than a healer, you want to be, that story is alive and well in your field. Okay? The unconscious, all of that unconscious limiting beliefs, patterns, all of it resides in our field, right? We always wondered like, where is the unconscious? Where does that exist? Is that in my brain, it's in your field and it is absolutely affecting your results. The question is, is there a block in the energetic exchange itself? You have to actually recognize what feels aligned with you and what doesn't. Burnout definitely comes into play when. You have very little alignment with the things you're doing, you are not lit up by them. And it's not that we listen again, we have to do the masculine and sometimes the masculine says, do shit you don't wanna do. Don't get me wrong. There's boring shit to be done in running a business. And some of it is like, please God get me to the point where I can hire someone else to do that for me. Right. So when we look at the block in your energetic exchange itself, people can feel the difference between something built from overflow and something built from, I need this to work. You just can sense it and feel it before they've even said much, right? And from somebody who's calm and is open and loving and like just all good, you sense that too because it's in the field, it's energetic. So when you're doing an exchange and you're looking at your relationship for money, Sometimes it is relationship to money that causes that exchange to get weird. When you see money as energy and you see it as also mirroring back to you what's going on, it's part of the field, right? Like that energetic responsiveness, a mirror of the exchange is happening between you, your work, and the people you're called to serve. And it flows where energy goes, right? It stagnates where energy stagnates, and that means you have influence over it that has nothing to do with working harder. And I love that part. That part I'm trying to like breathe in because honestly we are so wired from the generations before us for something very different than that, right? So I love that. And so I wanna say it to you again. It means that you can control or impact how much money you have without working harder. Okay, now I want to say something that is going to feel a little counterintuitive, okay? So stress and pressure are not required for financial success. In fact, for many of you, they're precisely what is preventing it. A lot of us believe that being stressed out means you care enough. It means you're doing enough. You want everybody to know how stressed you are because then they can actually truly understand that doing enough that you are enough, that you are worthy. Any of those core wounds, but really the, the enough wound and for empathic, spiritual, sensitive oriented women, this narrative is not just false. It is actually. I think it's actively toxic. Because creative flow, your creative flow does not come from constriction. It comes from space, spaciousness capacity. And when your business and your bank account feels scarce, and you are in a constant state of hustle, you're depleted, you're stressed, and you are truly constricted energetically, your field is constricted, right? And constriction cannot generate the expansion that you want. You cannot squeeze abundance out of a clenched field. So the invitation here, is to ask yourself, what does my most powerful, regulated, spiritually connected self want to create? So let's look at reading your own field how do you know if your field needs attention? If it is time to pause, if you need to recalibrate, if you need to take responsibility for the state of your business through this lens, i'm going to give you a few signs and I want to be clear. These are not the signs everyone else is probably talking about, right? A lot of people, and myself included, I have talked about, um, the fear of visibility or putting yourself out there or asking for more money or the all the red flags that are really significant flags to say, Hey, I need to do some limiting belief work here. I need to go into myself, but I wanna give you the more subtle signals. So I'm just gonna give you a few examples for you to digest and then you can open this up to see what this might be for you, how it might be different, because your business is always communicating. The question is whether you're listening, okay? So I want you to look at, I'm gonna take my example from the beginning, the 2:00 AM to-do list. So how are you sleeping?.. one sign I want you to pay out attention to is your sleep. I want you to pay attention to are you sleeping? Do you wake up at like two in the morning and start your to-do list? Are you rehearsing preparing at two in the morning, not because you're a night owl. Not because you've had too much coffee, but because your nervous system cannot put the business down.. what it is actually happening is this threat lube, your system has classified the business as a source of chronic alarm and it cannot rest until the alarm is resolved. So when you cannot let the business rest, it's because some part of you believes that if you stop holding it all together, it's gonna fall apart. That is not a strategy sister. That is a wound running your business. And it will run it straight into the ground if you let it., I do wanna say this. Okay. Qualifier here that. Sometimes at two o'clock in the morning, it's actually usually four for me, um, especially premenopausal woman here. Sometimes I will get clarity. I will wake up, my brain will come out of dream state. I'll start thinking about a project I'm working on. Then I'm whirling through. And next thing I know, I got my phone out. I'm furiously typing in my notes because I am downloading this idea. Sometimes some of us do get hits the most easy at four o'clock in the morning. Why is that? Why is it that two o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, we get these incredible hits of how we should do something, what we should say? I think it's because we're not allowing the time during the day. So it is still pointing the directions towards, that how you're running things in this business, how you're showing up for it, is problematic to its success because it's problematic to your burnout. It's problematic. And so I just wanted to put that little caveat in there because I know some of you're like me and you're like, but I get some of the best stuff in the middle of the night. Yes. But it's also because it's also, it's self mirroring that you're not giving time during the day to, to actually allow space to be able to do that. So sign two. You've stopped being funny. Or you've stopped being yourself. Whichever version applies to you, the lightness is gone. The irreverence you ones had doesn't feel as sharp. The pleasure. The work seems to be gone. Everything is really serious in your business right now. And here's the energetic read on that, because joy is expansive. Humor is a sign of nervous system, flexibility. It truly is. Play is where your most original ideas come from, right? When we playful, like that's when shit's flying through, right? That's why it's hitting us at 2 0 4 in the morning, by the way, because we're open. But during the day, we're so constricted. So when the business has consumed your personality, when you can't full, fully be present at dinner, right? You can't laugh without it feeling like you should be doing something else, like you productive. And then another sign, kind of similar to this 'cause I see this too, so your closest relationships have one topic that your partner, your best friend, your sister, they all know what is going on in your bus. Like your revenue members, like your launch stress, the decision, the position you're trying to get, whatever is happening. Your client drama, every conversation eventually loops back to the business. And what's happening here, like your people, probably think like you're obsessive about the business, but what's happening underneath it, I want you to hear this, is that you're using the relationships in the environment around you to regulate the anxiety you have about your business, right? So, and you could apply this in life, anything that you're doing where you're like, I keep talking to everybody about it, that means that you are trying to use them to help you regulate. And it never works. Like I have worked with people who literally will obsessively ask seven to eight people what they should do in their business about a decision, and everybody's burnt out and exhausted and they never. Feel right. They, whatever the feedback they get, it never resonates 'cause it's not from them. So like it's, it just never dies. The people you love have become unconsciously load-bearing walls for something they did not sign up to hold. And you are not actually present in those relationships. Connection is a resource and you are spending it not receiving it, right? And you are using it in a way that is not filling you up. It's just not. And you really have to come to that conclusion in order to make that shift. So this is sign four. Overwhelm has become your identity. So let's talk about this one. It's like sort of tender, and I say it with tremendous love, but when I'm so overwhelmed. Quote unquote becomes the primary way you describe yourself to others. It has shifted from a temporary state to a self-concept and a self-concept. It's your field. Okay? It's, it's layered in your field. You are now broadcasting overwhelm. That's what the universe is getting. That's what energy is in frequency is speaking and sharing and putting out that this is what we do. We, we, we do overwhelm. Not just experiencing it, but you're actually broadcasting it. You're saying, Hey, let's do more of this. Overwhelm as identity also keeps you from the responsibility reframe, because if you are overwhelmed by circumstances, then you are a victim of them, and victims cannot shift fields. They cannot, they can only wait for the circumstances to change. They don't take responsibility in it, right? Taking responsibility for the state of your business through an energetic lens is not self-blame. It's the opposite. It is recognizing that you have more agency here than the story of overwhelm will ever allow you to access. So getting out of overwhelm means does mean getting out of victimhood. And it does mean I have agency for change and that's not who I am. That's a mistake I was making sign five. You are consuming more than you're creating. And this is a little thing I see a lot for people. Um, you've got a lot of courses you haven't opened. You've got three new framework things that you're like wanna implement, but you, you just never get to it. Maybe you have a podcast queue that's running till next March, right? Like you, you've got all this learning set up. This is a specific flavor of constriction that looks like growth, but it's actually a signal that you're putting out to your creative channel, that your creative channel is blocked. And when the well is dry, when depletion or fear has closed the channel, consumption fills the space, right? So if you are completely void of that intuition, if you're not feeling in flow, if you're not feeling creative or inspired, then we start to consume. It feels like forward motion, but it's actually your system looking for someone else's energy to borrow because yours is unavailable and. Well, sometimes that's helpful because I am, listen, I'm a big fan of podcasts and learning and doing all the things. It's just that we have to tend to our garden, like we have to tend to our energy field ourselves, and that's just a step that has us avoiding that. Going out and over consuming and, filling our time with everybody else's energy isn't even necessarily what we need. And so I just wanna point that out. So if any of these landed good. The landing is information. It's not an indictment, it's just information. This is all just really good information for you to look at, like, what's going on? How am I living in this business? How am I being? Um, and that's really important. So now that we've done the diagnosis, let's talk about what actually moves the needle, right? We're looking at energetic upgrades, shifts you can make today that will change what your field is broadcasting. And I promise you. This, it can change what your business starts reflecting back. So upgrade one is moving from working on my business to tending to my field. So this is a language shift that is actually an identity shift. Your business is not a machine you operate. It is a living system, has its own ecosystem in itself that reflects you. And tending, it means tending to yourself, which means tending to your nervous system. How are you taking care of that every day? Tending to the beliefs you have, tending to your alignment with the choices and decisions you're making. So upgrade two, we're gonna look at shifting pressure as fuel to coherence as power. So start asking this question regularly. Where am I using stress to feel productive? Where am I mistaking anxiety for motivation? And then what does my most regulated, spacious, spiritually connected self create when she's genuinely resourced? So the first few questions where I'm asking you to look at. How, what is your attachment to stress? Are you using stress as a way to feel more productive? I'm so stressed, I'm so overwhelmed. There's so much to do. Are you mistaking anxiety for motivation? So when you feel internal pressure, it's like, okay, now I can move only with only when I feel pressured, I can move. And then we're gonna switch over to the more coherence as power, which says I have a whole other source of motivation. My most regulated, spacious, spiritually connected self. She's like the bomb. She's awesome and she needs some things. And trust me when I tell you, and I know, you know, 'cause you're a listener, that it feels freaking awesome to feel, intuitively driven. To feel like you're lit up and something just opened inside you and you're like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I want that. It's, that's motivation. But when we don't have that, we tend to do all the things we talked about. And that is why I will die on the hill when I say this to you out loud, that your healed version of you is the most powerful business asset you have. She is worth protecting. She's worth building your schedule around. She's worth saying no for that. Your business can only be good as the woman who is running it. And she needs you to show up and really see she's worth making all these changes for another upgrade, is to add energetic ROI to your decision making. So re an ROI is return on investment. So every offer, every client relationship, every content strategy has both a financial. An energetic price tag. And this goes for you in life. Like anything that you're doing, that whatever you're doing, when you make decisions for your life, they have an energetic price tag. Some things that look profitable and awesome are draining. You dry. Some things that look small are actually deeply rewarding. So start factoring in what's the energetic return on investment here? Ask, not just, does this make me money, but does this feed my soul? Does this feed my field? Or is it gonna deplete it? Because a fed field makes better money anyway for longer, right? Because we can sustain it without burning out and Let your business be a mirror, I want you to resist the impulse to immediately want to work harder or overextend yourself. I want you to get curious. Instead, I want you to ask, what is this reflecting about me right now? Let this be a mirror. If this isn't working, what could that be telling me about me? How I'm operating, how I'm showing up? Is this an alignment, right? We're looking, taking that energetic checklist and looking at that ROI again, and saying, okay, so what is this mirroring back to me right now? Not as self-blame, obviously. And so the last upgrade I wanna talk about is opening your receiving. We mentioned this before, I'll say it plainly again. Many of the most generous, gifted, empathic women I know are terrible receivers. They give value, they they pour into their clients and then they shrink. When it comes to being praised or seen or supported or paid, expanding your capacity to receive is not a soft skill. It's not. It is the energetic infrastructure of a thriving business. So the channel has to go both ways. Money flows towards women who can hold it. Opportunity finds women who believe they deserve it, and your business will always grow to the edge of your capacity to receive it. And not one inch further. Literally, your business can only grow as much as you can receive it. And that my friends, I have been talking about for like 10 years. It's a concept that I have just. I have just muled over and had to do some deep work. I'm still doing deep work on this because really understanding what it is to be in the vulnerability of receiving, um, it's so, it's hard to understand, but I really have found it to be true, that the more you work on that, the better you are at receiving. How are you at receiving presents? Someone comes around and they gift you and you don't have one for them. How do you feel? Are you freaking out? Right? Can you just receive without giving the, there's just something so basic like that is so tied into your business. Your ability to receive will cap. How much money you make will cap, how much business comes in. And, I really believe that. So I wanna close this with something I genuinely hope you carry out of this episode and into your week. And it is that you do not have to try this hard. I wanna say that again because I know how long some of you have been pushing. I know how deep the belief runs that effort is the only thing keeping it together. You do not have to try this hard, because the quality, of energy you bring to the work matters infinitely more than the quantity of hours you spend in it. So this constricted version of you running on cortisol, doing your 2:00 AM to-do list performing presence in your relationships with your mind somewhere else obsessing about the business consuming content because your creative channel is too depleted. So you're filling up more time that you don't have, you know, trying to figure out, learn something, so you shove more at it, right? The version of you cannot build. What you are called to build because she's working against herself. The expanded version of you is regulated. She is trying to be resourced. She doesn't have to be perfect at it, but she's trying. She's spending her time. She's opening up to it. She's spiritually connected because she's creating some space for that. She's genuinely open to receiving what you have been working so hard to build. She's genuinely open to receiving it. She can imagine receiving it. She can wrap her arms around it. She can say thank you for it. She's very magnetic in that way. Her business reflects her wholeness, not her wounds. Hear me when I say this to you. There is a wise woman at your core. She is your truest self. She not all the protective parts running on fear. She is the one to take on responsibility. You need to tap into her, you need to talk to her. You need to bring her forward. Taking responsibility for the state of your business through an energetic lens is not one more thing to add to the to-do list. It can feel like relief. So I'm like, I really want you to hear this episode as not, oh, I haven't been doing that. I, I really want you to hear it as hope because it is this thing underneath every item on the list. It is the ground everything grows from, and there's so much hope in the idea that I can start tuning in and I can, not with a new strategy, but with a question. What is my field broadcasting right now? What is it trying to mirror back at me? What is it that I need? What is it and is it what I actually want to transmit? Is that what you want? And you are not building a business, you are becoming someone whose field can hold one, differentiate that not just I am building the business. I have to, place each brick down and concrete. You are literally someone whose field is learning how to hold one. And this is the work, and it is some of the most important work that we'll be able to do in this time. So, before I let you go, I wanna mention something that I am building, um, that I'm genuinely excited about. I'm currently developing a new program specifically for women, probably like you, women who are empathic, established, spiritually oriented entrepreneurs who are doing everything right on the outside, but feeling that ceiling that we often talk about in my podcast here. Who knows in their bones that the block is not strategic, that knows that they need to get to the root, they need to heal the core wounds that are running their business from the unconscious crap that's going on, right? And then to learn how to build from a field that actually reflects who they're becoming. So if you resonate with my podcast in general, if you felt something shift along the way, these last episodes I've been building, are a lot of the conversation. I would love to have a conversation with you. Again, this is not a sales call because I'm not selling anything. I actually don't even have the program, ready yet. But I am having these conversations to learn about people and what they're building. And if I can offer any advice, I will talking about 15 minutes or so. just a consult so I can build this in such a way that really works for people and we can have a real conversation about where you are, what you're building, and what is the right next step here. So you can find, a link to book the consult in the show notes. And I would genuinely love to talk with you. Alright, so thank you for being here. Thank you for doing the work, not just in your business, but in yourself. And that, my dear is the bravest thing. So, until next time, i'm Michelle Erman. This is into the Work. Take care of your field and have a great week. Bye for now.