Meet Chelsea Conrad, Holistic Health & Nutrition Counselor and owner of Bodhi + Sol, a holistic wellness center located in Deland, FL.

In this episode:

Getting to Business Ownership

• A musical theater degree, acting, and a cutthroat property maintenance company (4:32)
• The stress of constant rejection leads to a new passion. (16:56)
• A Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor (18:03)
• Changing the trajectory of a childhood dream: mourning one passion and focusing on another (19:42)
• “Together, we make a whole brain”: business partnership dynamics (8:45)
• A right-brainer learns Quickbooks (11:19)
• When business partners part ways (9:58)

Bodhi and Sol

• The Tree of Life and the Sun (:56)
• A Holistic Wellness Center: not just a spa (1:33)
• Something different: All-inclusive treatments (47:34)
• The Blending Bar (48:16)
• Sales: it’s about helping, no sales quotas, just education and suggestions (27:14)

COVID

• Closed for 3 months and heartbreaking decisions (9:34)
• Irony: being stressed out and forgetting self-care as a wellness spa owner (36:10)
• Sound healing (36:18)
• “Reinserting my passion back into being a business owner” (37:16)
• “Really be rooted in the community." (56:44)
• “We want you here.” “I still have my job. I want you to have yours too.” (1:02:14)

Advice for Entrepreneurs

• You need support: “Surround yourself with other people who can recognize you for who you are and what you really need and listen to them.” (40:10)
• “Go for it. Follow your heart. Follow your dreams.” (41:56)
• "There will always be things that hurt but to always be pushing forward toward happiness.” (42:50)

Defining Success

• "People walk in here feeling one way and they float out with a smile feeling different and that for me is why I do this." (43:54)
• Helping clients “feel taken care of just truly, truly taken care of.” (49:33)
• “Success for me is it's one person at a time, feeling better walking away, saying, Oh, my gosh, I feel so much better now.” (51:29)
• "I really take pride in the little wins. And those all feel like successes. And so then my overall picture feels very successful.”(52:20)
• “If we can all work toward finding our own inner peace, through the turmoil, and allowing that light to shine out…It goes back to our own self care so that we can let that light shine so that can ripple out to other people." (45:32)

Other Fun Stuff

• “I was kind of a terrible two year old and would scream constantly, which is why I think I can sing now.” (3:30)
• Playing a 12 year-old boy in a nationally touring musical production (15:22)