Meet Joan Mathison 💃 guide and storyteller @ Adventures with a Locavore

Meet Joan Mathison 💃 guide and storyteller @ Adventures with a Locavore

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by  | May 27, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Joan Mathison 💃 guide and storyteller @ Adventures with a Locavore

Joan Mathison, guide and storyteller

Adventure lover: Curious + Curator + Connection + Community + Celebrate. Should you stay or should you go? I can help you find THAT PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG.

Saint Paul  Minnesota United States

My song is “Gotta Move”
written and performed by Barbra Streisand

 

Gotta move, gotta get out
Gotta leave this place,
gotta find some place
Some other place,
some brand new place
Some place where each face that I see
Won’t be staring back at me
Telling me what to be and how to be it
Some place where I can just be me
Gotta move, got to get out

Gotta leave this town, gotta find some town
Some big new town, some bright new town
Some new town with new places, new lives
And most of all, some new faces

My Story

photo by Lisa Venticinque

After eight exciting years, I lost my purpose in the pandemic.*

And it was so unexpected, just like the shutdown. You can probably relate. As a planner by nature, I was caught totally off guard.

But it’s complicated. On one hand, I was happy that people were heading outdoors and discovering nature’s healing gifts, close to home. But on the other hand, they did that on their own without my help and encouragement.

So now what? I was really afraid I wouldn’t be able to find another purpose that felt so right, that would energize me as much.

How could I make a difference in the post-pandemic world. What would that look like?

I had to take a deep breath and shift my thinking, consider other options, and look for the Big Picture. It took a while but there it was – right in front of me all the time.

Nature is a feature of PLACE, and every place has a story. As a locavore, place was what I really focused on.

We celebrate a specific place by eating fresh food grown by local farmers, supporting small local shops, artists, and businesses, and learning local history.

I named my business,  Adventures with a Locavore  because I believed in that concept and love adventures.

Then I learned that where you live, has a huge impact on your happiness and well being.

So I thought, teaching people about the science and art of “place” was true to my core, and no one else seemed to be doing it – an opportunity for my business, Adventures with A Locavore, to grow. And place was a topic big enough for me to study for a lifetime. I was curious and believe other people will be, too.

Coming out of the pandemic, knowing you can work from anywhere, there is a broadband today. Many people are itching to move.

People are thinking about upsizing in the suburbs or downsizing in the city, living in a small town or a cabin in the woods or closer to family.

So, how do you find that place where you truly belong.

I thought about my own place, my own life, and all the places I’ve lived – 10 places in four states. How about you?

In Denver. The mountains were wonderful – a place to escape –  trout fishing picnics in the summer, skiing in the winter. But the perfect weather had me missing those grey days that make you really appreciate the sun. Another delightful place, Arbor Michigan, a college town, something was also missing for me. I found it in Chicago on the river, and the big lake.

I thought about growing up in the new suburb of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, being carved out of cornfields. Not much else to do there in my jaded teenage mind, but the Purgatory Creek was magical, constantly changing throughout the seasons and it flowed near Prince’s Graffiti Bridge. It was a special place you could find and share.

That’s when I realized how important being near water was for me to be happy.

Where I live now is the perfect place for me. I live in the creative, urban neighborhood on the edge of the river gorge in St. Paul, surrounded by nature and history with family nearby. I’m home.

What’s your perfect place?

You can find that place where you belong too. Come with me we’ll have adventures. You can learn about good places to move, and whether you stay, or whether you go, how to put down roots in your place. that place where you belong.

– Joan

*see Joan’s “before the Pandemic” story here

What’s Next

*Coming Fall 2021*

That Place Where You Belong

Explore possibilities. Set down roots.

A 90-minute in-person workshop held outdoors in an extraordinary place
+
a Virtual Version in the Village

Benefits:

  • Where you live impacts your health and happiness
  • Create your plan to move and/or learn to love where you live
  • Support the Saint Paul Parks Conservancy

You will learn:

  • Every place has a story.
  • Should you stay or should you go?
  • Importance of where you grew up
  • Does your personality fit the city/neighborhood?
  • Revival of the “15-minute village”
  • The French art of flaneuring
  • Your “Third Place”

photo by Village Member Lisa Venticinque

About Joan

Joan is a writer, history nerd, pastry chef and community development professional certified in sustainability leading workshops in extraordinary Twin Cities places.

 

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Meet Chris Zydel 💃 Wild Heart Queen

Meet Chris Zydel 💃 Wild Heart Queen

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by  | May 20, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Chris Zydel 💃 Wild Heart Queen

Chris Zydel

Creativity Mama. Healer With Paint. Heart Whisperer. Art Trailblazer. Wise Trickster. Maker Of Creative Sanctuaries. Deep Soul Diver. Art As A Spiritual Practice.

Hayward California USA

Emmylou Harris’  “I Was Born to Run” (spy boy)

My Story

I am an expressive arts facilitator, teacher, leader and guide and use the power of the intuitive painting process in healing community circles to help people connect with and reclaim their true and authentic selves. I have been wondrously blessed to have found work that I love, that is profoundly meaningful and that aligns with who I am at my most essential, core level. I know that this is something many people struggle to find, so not a day goes by that I don’t feel gratitude for this great good fortune.

My work is a core part of my identity and is also deeply connected to my mojo. So when something challenges my relationship to my work it throws off my mojo balance in a big way.

 

Most of my work is done in groups and prior to the pandemic I delivered my work live and in person through classes, workshops, retreats and training programs. I love the energy that gets created when you bring a group of people together in a sacred circle, build an art studio where they can express themselves with total freedom and create a non judgmental container where they can feel encouraged and celebrated to explore every aspect of their soul and psyche in a safe and supportive community.

I’m also a not-so-secret mystic. And my mojo is powerfully fueled by spending time in spacious, majestic natural environments like the mountains, the red rock desert or the ocean shore.

So early on I came across the genius idea to bring these two mojo building activities together by offering expressive arts intuitive painting retreats in gorgeous and spiritually nourishing nature settings.

In order for this genius idea to work I needed to find existing retreat centers that allowed me to create art studios where I could build a space to house the messy and gratifying work of healing with paint, and tears and joy and love.

Over the span of almost 20 years I found three retreat centers that fit the bill beautifully… one in the wilds of New Mexico, one in the ancient redwood forests of coastal California and one in the High Sierra California mountain range. I essentially lived my life on retreat spending almost 4 months out of any given year traveling to and then living in these beautiful places with groups of 15-20 creatively intrepid souls who joined me for these healing adventures. It was glorious. And I was totally in my element.

As time went on I formed incredibly deep bonds with the land, the retreat centers themselves and with the people who ran them, returning again and again and again over the years. These places each became a creative home that claimed and held a piece of my heart and my soul, and were inextricably bound to how I did my sacred healing work.

However, in September of 2017 when I was on retreat in New Mexico, it became abundantly and shockingly clear that I could no longer continue to be in partnership with that particular place. There were some weird financial shenanigans and increasingly unbearably chaotic mismanagement with the retreat center itself and the separate space where I stored my easels and art supplies in between workshops was no longer available. So I had to make the heartbreaking decision to say goodbye to this place that I loved and that had served me so well for 18 years.

And then.. even more shockingly… only three weeks later my second beloved retreat center that was nestled in the California redwoods burned to the ground in a devastating wildfire.

In a matter of weeks, my whole world turned upside down.

It was a very disorienting and devastating time because even though my actual home was still totally intact these two primary creative homes were now gone, and I felt spiritually homeless.

I didn’t even have time to grieve, since I had another seven retreats on the books for the coming year, with the next one scheduled in a matter of weeks, which meant I had to act––and act quickly.

My angels were looking out for me as I miraculously got a call within days of the fire from one of my long-time students letting me know that she had an amazing place I could use as a retreat center located on a bluff overlooking the ocean on the California coast. It was such an incredible act of generosity and it meant among other things that I didn’t even have to deal with the anxiety of looking for a new space.

But as lucky as I knew I was, I felt numb and disconnected and like I was just going through the motions of my life. My mojo had gone up in smoke, like the retreat center lost to the fire.

This magical work that had always fed my soul was shrouded by a grief I could not allow myself to feel.

Part of it was that it “didn’t make sense.” I hadn’t lost my actual home and I was effortlessly gifted this beautiful NEW retreat center that was more incredible on so many levels than I could have ever imagined. And part of it was that I just didn’t want to admit how much those two places I had lost had meant to me.

So I attempted to reason with my heart, trying to convince her that we had every reason to be joyful. But she wasn’t having ANY of it, and kept pulling me down into the netherland of my own personal underworld until I was willing to acknowledge the depth of my loss. I fought it for a while longer and then one day just surrendered to the magnitude of my grief, allowing my sobbing heart to break open in a million pieces and a flood of tears and wailing that went on for a very long time.

Of course, I needed to cry more than once. But that first allowing of the truth of my heart began the process of me coming back home to myself, which ultimately led to my mojo for my work and my life slowly returning.

It was a humbling moment of being confronted with the idea that you teach what you most need to learn…since I am ALWAYS telling my students how important it is for them to trust in their feelings.

But it was also a reminder that my mojo is deeply connected to my ability to love.

That loving something or someone always means that we will experience the loss of what we love somewhere along the way. And that keeping our hearts open to wherever that journey into love takes us is the only way to stay fully alive.

More about Chris Zydel

 

Chris Zydel, MA also known as the Wild Heart Queen, is head creative goddess at Creative Juices Arts. She has over 40 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide and an unshakeable faith in the power of creativity to heal hearts and change lives. She knows deep in her bones that everyone is deeply, wonderfully and gloriously creative and is on a relentlessly love-soaked mission to prove that to the world. She performs this magic by providing nurturing and joy-filled creative sanctuaries overflowing with encouragement, permission and trust in the sacred energy of play and creativity that lives inside of us all.

Chris just released her book: Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart

Conversations with the Brush is a wildly entertaining and inspirational journey into examining the question of how to become more creatively open and alive using intuitive painting and the expressive arts.

I wrote this book because I wanted to introduce as many folks as possible to the idea that we are ALL naturally wildly creative and that what stops our creative flow dead in its tracks are things like judgment, perfectionism, comparison, self-doubt, fear, unrealistic expectations, not trusting our intuition and limiting cultural beliefs around what it means to be a creative being. – Chris

 

Where to Find Chris

Meet Katie Kalkman 💃 Executive Director Impact Hub MSP

Meet Katie Kalkman 💃 Executive Director Impact Hub MSP

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by  | May 13, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Katie Kalkman 💃 Executive Director Impact Hub MSP

Katie Kalkman

Executive Director Impact Hub MSP | Helping Businesses Do Good | Ecosystem Builder | Ambassador of Personal Goodness

Minneapolis/St. Paul MN US/Warroad MN US

My Story

Impact Hub


I’m an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. Since 2005, I’ve been involved in six startups, most notably Impact Hub MSP (Minneapolis/St.Paul). In February of 2020 I was named executive director of the organization which I’d co-founded with Terri Barreiro – former director of the Donald McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship at CSB and SJU.

The Impact Hub just wasn’t getting the legs that we’d wanted it to, and when Terri was set to retire, she joined me and we just got renewed energy. We launched right after she retired. Having that extra partner kind of laid the groundwork. And of course, her networking in the Twin Cities, her vast United Way background and the fact she’s mentored so many people … having her on board was pivotal in the launching.

Based on Impact Hubs located around the world, Impact Hub MSP is like a small business incubator for ‘social businesses’ or businesses created to make the world a better place, providing community, speakers, workshops and classes to entrepreneurs.

A Way of Life

My husband, Gabriel, is also an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is in both of our DNAs, we both are builders; we’re both creative. We’re both also doers. There’s more than just coming up with the ideas. You also have to have the appetite to do the work.

An opportunity opened up for us to help create Fölk School Warroad and for me to be the Executive Director. The school’s goals are to inspire those it reaches to create with their hands, head and heart; enrich the lives and build community among Warroad residents and visitors; and contribute to a vibrant downtown and positive economic growth.

We’re off to a great start. There are so many talented artists in Warroad and the folk school’s role is to create space for these artists to teach their crafts and naturally bring people together. Our hope is that we look like Grand Marais 20 years from now, that Warroad becomes a destination.


Entrepreneurship can be risky but just a way of life for us. We get a lot of energy from it. When I say way of life, it’s just what can we do with the things that we’ve learned? What can we build? What can we try to do?

The folk school is an example of that. I didn’t set out to create a folk school. I just thought it was a really cool experience and opportunity. The more I thought about it, the more I thought Warroad needed a folk school. Kalkman said. “That’s part of being an entrepreneur – seeing opportunity and acting on it.

When we come up with these ideas together, we bounce them off each other – we’re always brainstorming and discussing ideas. That’s the philosophers in us – we’re idea people. It’s nice to have a partner who can meet you where you’re at, and then help support your ambitions.

More About Katie Kalkman

I am energized by businesses that exist to help make the world a better place.

The nature of how I do business is to be personal, understand business goals, and to build deep relationships. Business is people, and I care about people. I have built, and will continue to build my life, brand, network and business success on this premise. And it is with this philosophy, my intense work ethic, and a bottomless fountain of passion that I look forward to continuing my personal and professional growth through contribution to others.

I bring over 10 years of experience in delivering outcomes through business development, client relationship management, consultative selling, marketing and strategic planning.

I started my passion for social entrepreneurship as a student at the College of St. Benedict. I co-founded a successful social business as part of the Entrepreneurial Scholars Program and I haven’t stopped since then. Since 2005, I have been a part of six startups including; Collegeville Carpets, GH Comfortable Homes, LLC, Northern Toboggan and Company, Folk School Warroad and Impact Hub MSP. I have worked with entrepreneurs in China, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and the Twin Cities. I am dedicated to helping social impact entrepreneurs succeed because I knows the risks and rewards of thinking big.

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Meet Nancy Wojack Hendrickson 💃 Artist

Meet Nancy Wojack Hendrickson 💃 Artist

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by  | May 12, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Nancy Wojack Hendrickson 💃 Artist

Nancy Wojack Hendrickson

I create b&w photos and mixed media artworks with themes of love, loss, family and the legacy we leave behind.

Minneapolis MN US

The Waterboys is a favorite band of mine with their soulful and joyful rock and their Celtic rhythms.
From The Fisherman’s Blues album “Sweet Thing.” Nathaniel’s songwriting is moving to me and speaks to what some of us have gone through during this past year.

Also Rateliff’s “And It’s Still All Right”

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “S. O. B.” :: This rowdy songs imbues high energy, vintage rock and roll with it’s horns, clapping rhythms and well… because this past year has also driven many of us to want to drink! 🙂

Nancy’s Story

No one is truly gone as the ripples they made in this world continue on forever.

It is universal…we will all lose someone we love. And this year — the year of the pandemic — has been no exception. If anything, this past year has amplified our losses even more. Yes, the grief and loss are left behind; but also so are the gifts our loved ones leave behind. The lessons learned that will never leave you. The memories and the love that will linger.

Those gifts are what I want to focus on.

In this midst of this past year, during a pandemic, I was determined to get my personal passion project completed: I was going to print a set of black and white photographs of Ireland. The negatives were taken by my late husband on our last trip to Ireland. But he never got to print them.

I love these black and white photos because first they are from Barry Hendrickson, my husband. They hold great meaning to me because I’m passionate about honoring my Irish heritage, and these images relay that lifelong love of Ireland. They show the haunting beauty of Ireland with its rich and tragic past.  It parallels my own past with universal themes of love, loss and legacy.

It’s been quite a journey…So let’s back up a bit.

Barry Hendrickson was a handsome, energetic commercial photographer when I met him. We were together over 13 years. We ended up working side-by-side on a fine art photo business focused on Ireland — the land of our ancestors. We were married and had a daughter. She was one and a half years old when Barry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This led to a tumultuous time of working, traveling and selling photos nationwide, interspersed with ailments, cancer treatments and doctors appointments.

After three years and four months, Barry succumbed to cancer.

Our fine art photography business selling Irish landscapes was booming, and here I was, a widow with a 4 year old daughter. “Ireland in Black & White” was our livelihood and main source of income. It was too difficult emotionally and physically for me alone to do all the traveling and work by myself. I had to pivot and figure something new. So I looked back to my graphic design skills and became a web designer. My graphic and web design business has sustained my daughter and me.

But the images from our last trip to Ireland were never made — Barry was too sick, and life too chaotic for those last three years. These images, those pieces — parts of the land of our ancestors, taken by Barry, stayed with me. I wanted those prints brought to life.

So eight years after his death, I started this passion project. I was going to print black and white images from our last trip to Ireland together. I had learned the process of black and white printing while Barry and I worked together.

I love working through the print process to create emotion and depth. I personally print each carbon pigment print with the utmost attention to detail and drama. It’s a gift to be able to print from Barry’s photo archives. It’s a release and joy for me.

They bring my connection to my Irish heritage—snd Barry—to life.

I am learning to share my widow’s journey. At times, I find myself hiding from a monumental grief, because sharing my story can make others uncomfortable. But I’ve found the courage to show others that my grief is part of who I am. It is just me and my story. Because this is love, and what love and loss looks like.

Back to 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I completed ten black and white prints and labeled them the “Legacy Series.” It seems fitting because I am inspired by the love of my ancestral homeland, and the love for my late husband and photographer, Barry Hendrickson. These emotive Irish landscape photographs reflect universal themes of love, loss, family and the legacy that is left behind.

My plans for an in-person show were canceled due to the pandemic. So I did a release of the fine art photos on my Hendrickson Fine Art Photography website. I shared this with my friends, fans and collectors through email and social media. I received great feedback and response, and some sales as well. It was a bittersweet accomplishment.

Rest in peace ~

In loving memory of all who have gone before.

Including my dear husband, my father and all of my ancestors.

Reach out to me. I’d love to hear if you have a moving story from someone you lost. How you continue to honor and remember them.  Perhaps you enjoy black and white photography or have an interested in Ireland. I’d love to connect.
– Nancy W Hendrickson

 

Nancy’s Bio 

Nancy loves to integrate art into her life and business. Her passion for Ireland started at a young age. For over 17 years, the “Ireland in Black & White’” series by Hendrickson Fine Art Photo has been displayed and sold in more than 100 exhibitions in over 39 cities nationwide. Nancy developed photo printing skills while working with her late husband and photographer, Barry Hendrickson. She honors her late husband by printing the “Legacy” series of fine art photos. She is also a graphic and web designer that focuses on helping small businesses with their design needs. Her latest art involves layering photos and paint to create something new – a symbol of life after loss.

Connect with me: 

See my Legacy Series by Hendrickson Fine Art Photo at:

https://irelandinblackandwhite.com/
by Hendrickson Fine Art Photography

Or find me in the Athena Village

Other ways to connect:

Meet Melinda Nakagawa 💃 Nature Connection Mentor, Spark in Nature

Meet Melinda Nakagawa 💃 Nature Connection Mentor, Spark in Nature

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by  | May 11, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Melinda Nakagawa 💃 Nature Connection Mentor, Spark in Nature

Melinda Nakagawa

Bridging nature, art and heart to open your eyes to wonder

Castroville, CA US

2 songs that sustained me and reminded me of the inner fire that was burning when the external world was collapsing, were “Love My Life” by Robbie Williams and “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten.

In fact Fight Song I played over and over in my earphones during the darkest time of my work life– to remind me of my power, my creatorship–knowing that I am moving thru this to something far better– that I just needed to trust and believe and hold my head high instead of letting life beat me down.

And, here I am today…

My Story

I’m a nature connection mentor, and I teach people how to do nature journaling and how to get out to see more nature. I bridge science, nature, art and heart to bring it all together so that we can start to see more, rather than just look at what’s going on in nature. And I’m going to talk a little bit about how I got here…

Watch My Story! [6:49]

Nature Journaling

When we spend time in nature, it reduces stress it, it resets your nervous system, it helps with memory and concentration, it helps bring some joy and resilience into your life. Nature journaling is really just about being in nature, observing what you see, slowing down. The journal helps us transition from this busy doing-state to the slower being-state. We get to be in nature, experience it.

 

I teach people how to get that 3-dimensional nature experience onto a 2-D page.  Enjoy!  [4:52]

More About Melinda

Melinda Nakagawa, M.Sc., is a biologist, naturalist, and educator with a passion and skill for connecting people to nature. She founded Spark in Nature to guide participants to cultivate a deeper relationship with the natural world, slowing down to nature’s pace and seeing rather than just looking at the world.

With an approach that bridges nature, art and heart, she welcomes all people regardless of their skill level or background. Through her guidance, hundreds of participants have awakened their spark of curiosity, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural world.

Connect with Melinda

Meet Virginia Wilcox 💃 Mother, Founder & Chief Listening Officer @ Amplify The Heart

Meet Virginia Wilcox 💃 Mother, Founder & Chief Listening Officer @ Amplify The Heart

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by  | May 10, 2021 | 2021, 30 Women 30 Stories

Meet Virginia Wilcox 💃 Mother, Founder & Chief Listening Officer @ Amplify The Heart

Virginia Wilcox

In process, REINVENTING myself as a creative entrepreneur to AMPLIFY THE HEART of women in leadership. Heart-centered leadership is the future of business.

Highland UT US

It’s always emotionally resonant to connect through music.

These songs will certainly help you get to know me and the approach I take on life…

This song is very DEEP and PERSONAL. I commissioned this song to be written about my experience becoming a mother.
I think I did it to try to help myself process my own grief. Not entirely certain. Anyway, I cannot listen to it without sobbing. Enjoy!

“Hard” by Family Friend: AUDIO ONLY

Written and performed by Family Friend (find them on Patreon and have them write a song for YOU too!)

Here is a video of Family Friend covering “I’m There Too” by Michelle Featherstone…Let’s walk our path in community!!!

My Story

My story, oh my goodness, when Kelly approached me for this, and was like, Oh my god, do I really want to tell the truth about like, the shit-tastic class, like five years or not. It’s just like even just telling you the story, again, feels so much for my body, I think part of me would just like rather forget and just be like, moving on moving on with life. But I think it’s really important to set some context. So yeah, I had a nervous breakdown at work. I was working on Madison Avenue for corporate like global company and had been working as an executive assistant for like six years in my little isolation tower up there in the skyscraper. I think I was just deeply, deeply unhappy and deeply not recognizing that.

– Virginia

Click above to listen to Virginia’s story in her own words, in her own voice.

Timestamps for the “highlights”  below so you can “cut to the chase”…for busy people. (Aren’t we all?)  [Full Transcript available in the Village for those who like to read along.]

0:40 – Nervous Breakdown – “My body just started to cry”

2:03 – Leaving my job and moving to California – “How to find purpose?”

2:40 – Unexpected pregnancy – “Surprise!”

3:10 – Almost died in childbirth – “PTSD!”

3:24 – Moved to Japan to save a relationship – #Fail

3:50 – Deep depression and loneliness – “Dark times”

4:10 – Return to the US – “May not be able to survive this experience”

4:23 – COVID!!!! – “Am I prepared for this challenge?”

5:20 – I cannot single-parent in a pandemic

5:40 – HELP!!! – Reaching out (lots of emails)

5:55 – “Any friend of mine shouldn’t be alone during this time”

6:23 – Opportunity in Utah – Safety and Reevaluation of LIFE

7:00 – “How build something that’s long-term-sustainable?”

7:40 – Entrepreneur!!!! – Be my own BOSS and call the shots? #scary

8:00 – Searching for Community – “Who is inspiring to me?”

8:22 – Women’s Business Accelerator (Shout-out to Ash Robinson!!!)

8:26 – Stanford University CCARE’s Applied Compassion Training

8:40 – Building a future with a sense of purpose and FUN!

9:45 – The process of defining (myself), refining (my path), experimenting (with and reclaiming my own value)

10:15 – Reciprocal relationships with people who love and value me

10:40 – Rebooting – Making the best use of the resources I have right now

11:20 – Getting still and quiet

11:30 – Trusting my intuition and serendipity – “That will baby-step me down a pathway to a better life-experience than I’ve been having…for a very long time.”

12:50 – How to connect with me? (Patreon – Virginia Wilcox)

13:05 – Burnt out? Need to reinvent your relationship to your work? Illuminate 2021

13:40 – Women who are looking to create better balance between the inner and outer worlds of your business-building

15:04 – Resting when rest is needed – Attuning to the body’s needs

16:05 – Grab your journal!!! Set your New Moon Intention. Activity!!!

19:35 – Cameo appearance from my toddler!!!! 

20:50 – Welcoming Magic and Serendipity – The incredible value of this process

21:30 – Gratitude (and giant thank you to Mike Kimlicko for audio mix assistance & Kelly + joy for this opportunity to share and be witnessed)

More about Virginia

I’m looking for women who want to grow their businesses and attract clients they LOVE to work with. The medium I love is AUDIO. The VOICE that the world needs is YOURS. When you speak from the HEART you attract the humans that you are HERE on this planet to serve. Listening is the revolution. Compassion is the way. Let’s de-stigmatize LEADING FROM THE HEART in business. I don’t know about you, but I make my BEST DECISIONS when my heart is in the driver’s seat. The mind will always make sense of it …later. When the mind quiets down and the heart speaks…THAT’s worth listening to. Let’s talk.

LISTEN TO THE HEART OF MY WORK HERE. (One minute listen.)

Where to Find Virginia

***Activity !!! Grab your journal !!!***

Grab your journal for new moon activity at the end of recording and/or JOIN ME LIVE ON ZOOM on May 11 to set your new moon intention in community, offering a fee guided self-reflection experience lead by Kerri Van Kirk and Virginia Wilcox (me).

  • When: May 11, 2021 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Register in advance for this meeting:

Skip to…16:05 to 21:30 in the recording