Are you ready to hack your hormones and align with your body for better business? In today’s episode, I’m continuing my mindset series and introducing you to Holistic Health provider Whitney Erwin. Whitney provides her insight into how to balance your hormones to best support entrepreneurship, how to make decisions as a heart-centered business, and how to build an abundant business through a strong sense of intuition.

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Review The Show Notes:

Understanding Your Hormones Is A Superpower For Your Business (3:20)

What It Means To Be Talking About Hormones (4:43)

Productivity And Our Hormonal Cycles (7:16)

Honoring The Phases Of Your Hormones and Cycle (10:04)

Whitney’s Path In Mindset And Hormonal Work (13:52)

Listening Better To Your Intuition (16:06)

Being A Heart-Centered Business (22:11)

Linking Our Hormones And Intuition (24:35)

Strategies For Approaching The Tougher Weeks (27:03)

Whitney’s Client Journey And Transformation (28:33)

Feeling Aligned In Your Soul And Business (33:29)

Key Tip From Whitney (36:52)

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Website: fourseasonsharmony.com

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Quianna: As ambitious business owners, we’re always looking to streamline, eager to learn new strategies, and love investing in self-development and business coaches to help us reach our goals faster and more efficiently. Even with the rapid growth of technology over the last couple of centuries, society and our way of living has created a huge disconnect with our intuition education about our hormones and how we can co-create our reality.

As we continue this mindset series, I’m thrilled to introduce you to a new friend and soul sister Whitney Irwin. Whitney is A-M-S-C-M-E-D-L-M-T, clinical Herbalist, holistic Health, and Ayurvedic practitioner, speaker and full-time practitioner and owner since 2015 of four Seasons, harmony, holistic Health, healing, and Ayurveda.

Those are all a lot of big words and a lot of letters to explain her education and certifications. Whitney is also a nature lover, a yogi scientist, intuitive empath artist, and she cares deeply about walking a path of selfless service. Whitney loves to apply holistic health and natural medicine to help women with chronic hormonal imbalances to reduce pain, restore balance, and vibrant energy.

She’s an advocate for living a long, healthy life. Today, we’ll be learning more about our cycle, prioritizing our hormones, and balancing our energy levels and workloads to best suit our needs that change almost daily. Whitney shares more about discovering our gifts and passions, and we discuss what it really means to become a heart-centered business.

Tune in to learn even more about developing a stronger intuition and how we can incorporate our intuition to live more abundantly in life and business. Together we blend the perfect amount of work and woowoo backed by science, the moon, and our womb wisdom. Ooh. I live at four conversations like this, and I am so thankful you are here for this chat too.

Let’s get this party started. Clear across the United States from Virginia to Arizona. Please welcome Whitney Irwin.

Welcome to Quianna Marie Weekly! A podcast for creatives who love to celebrate wins big or small, by dancing in the kitchen photographers who are excited to serve their clients and friends who are ready to chase really, really big dreams.

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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the party. Whitney, it is such an honor to meet you, to feel your energy already. I feel like this is gonna be such a fun conversation. How are you?

Whitney: I’m doing very well, Quianna! I’m incredibly excited to be here with you.

Quianna: Yes! Well, you are the hormone expert. I feel like looking as I get to know your business more, it’s just so fun to tap into all this expertise you have and I would love to just get this party started.

Understanding Your Hormones Is A Superpower For Your Business

How can understanding our hormones become a superpower for our business?

Whitney: I feel like it’s an intrinsic part of our physiology as well as on all levels of health, mind, body and spirit. Trying to separate ourselves from the reality that this is just a core part of who we are, I think can hold a lot of women back from really manifesting their dreams and.

Really filling their cup up in the deepest way possible with their health and wellbeing on a consistent basis. And so I’d just love to embrace this topic ’cause I think there’s a lot of fear and myths and vulnerability around it, misunderstanding. And so if we can learn how to work with our natural cycles of hormones and have this be something that supports and empowers our health, then amazing things happen.

And, uh, it is giving that like yeah, superstar charge to everything that you do!

Quianna: Yes. Oh my gosh. Well, can we break down what it means to you when we talk about our hormones and Right. Like, and how that can interlink with business? Where I even know for myself, for example, I mean, I feel like I’m four different people throughout the month, right?

What It Means To Be Talking About Hormones

I think I feel like I have four different personalities. I keep my, my boyfriend on his toes and he knows that I need certain things, or I maybe act certain ways during the week or during, you know, different times of the month. And so. What does that mean? Like, ’cause my first thought is period math when it comes to hormones.

Yes. But can we break that down a little bit and exactly what that means? Yes.

Whitney: And I think what you’re sharing is very common and spot on. And, and so, I mean, there’s our endocrine system, there’s the reproductive system. And that is impacting all of our organs and major body systems, right? They’re all extremely ably linked.

And so it’s something that like we need on a foundational level, protein and building blocks naturally to give that raw material, you know, for our body to be able to really live and breathe and, you know, be able to give life and share and talk. I mean, it’s just critical for a basic life. Now I also take that a step further in my holistic health background, looking at how that impacts us emotionally, spiritually, psychologically.

And, uh, as you know, like, uh, it’s completely normal for our hormones to shift, and I like to normalize that conversation. So every two and a half days. Generally speaking for a woman, their hormones are changing. There’s nothing wrong with that. And so I talk so much about hormone imbalance and really it’s kind of relaxing into the dance of that.

And it’s okay that we don’t feel the same every day of the month. It’s okay that we have different creative cycles and our hormones can really compliment that if we let that be something that’s supporting us. And uh, it’s something that. Languaging like progesterone and estrogen I think are talked a lot about, and I like to call that yin sex hormones and kind of lump it more into that category.

So that’s critical for, for women to just be at a basic level with their health. So those are deficient or too high than we’re gonna have a lot of negative and uncomfortable symptoms. So we of course always wanna balance those. But then the gift aspect is, is so much more where. You’re tuned into your, your needs.

You have a lot of energy, uh, you have a lot of cre, insight, etc.

Productivity And Our Hormonal Cycles

Quianna: Oh my gosh. This is so fascinating and I feel like I have a million questions for you and I’m excited to dig deeper into this where, you know, how can we find this link between, let’s just start with productivity. Let’s start with like this link of like, Hey, like I’m starting to be a little more aware of these daily changes.

I love that you mentioned it’s every two and a half days. I didn’t even know that. I thought it was more kind of like around the clock, like a weekly change, right? The different phases. So how could we look at our hormone health or our hormonal health in like a spectrum of some way? Like how can we start to analyze it so we can step forward in business and in our emotions, like to the best version of ourself and just to be more aware of it.

Whitney: I think for me, and I’m a, you know, creative empath, intuitive and very analytical and mathematical too, but I have a very strong creative side. And so I’m always looking at how can I balance my inner masculine emini energies, how can I bridge yin and yang so they’re very complimentary and that that is something that’s a foundation for my life and my business.

And so I think that productivity. For sure is external doing, but it’s also internal processes as well. And so I like to hold space for my women to see how valuable it is to accept all those parts of the productivity cycle. I. And so if you’re, you know, brainstorming about what needs to be done, you have a vision for something new and need to reflect on the logistics first, that might be more aligned with a certain part of your monthly cycle and where your hormones are.

Honoring The Phases Of Your Hormones and Cycle

And then more of like the external doing of having, you know, a rush of energy or, you know, feeling like I’m ready to get something done and check it off my to-do list. You might be in a different part of your cycle that month. And so in all of those is very purposeful. But I think also not forcing ourselves to be in a place that we’re not, and that’s something that I’ve struggled with a lot and I do a lot of coaching with my women around honoring how what is naturally coming up for you and what you need right now.

And then if there’s something lingering, it’s this big project and you’re like, I need to get it done today, and I should, but I don’t. I’m not into it. I’m really in this other place. Just wait a couple days and come back to it and I promise things will shift around where there will be an opening later on for you to be in the right head and heart space to do that.

Quianna: Yes. I love that and I love that you are reminding us to give ourselves grace with that, right? Like being aware of it is the first key, and then aligning your schedule to those needs. I think that is just so incredible. ’cause even for me, for example. I’ve actually started doing this as a photographer. I love photographing women, making them feel like their highest self.

I love embodiment work and just making them feel super confident. And actually, one of the questions I asked before scheduling their photo shoot is, Hey, I don’t wanna sound like your doctor, but when was your last period? Right. And and I say that only with people that I have a really close relationship with, or I feel confident to ask because I wanna find that alignment with, which is I call Glory Week, which is pretty much like.

Like a week or two after your last period, because to me that’s when your energy is like Woo rising. Or like, at least I should say, that’s what is personal for me in my experience. In your knowledge and in your experience. Like how does that align with that? Because during that time of my cycle, I feel like we are just woo, like I just feel gorgeous.

I feel like, I don’t know if that’s like ovulating or what’s happening, but I just feel like, woo, ready to go, and. And I find that so wonderful when I’m photographing these women because they, I could match up and schedule when they’re a part of that cycle. When is the best time to plan their session based around their hormones? Like, does that make sense? Like, could we dig deeper into that?

Whitney: Absolutely. I, I love that you bring that awareness into your work and you’re noticing these patterns. Um, and I always invite women like start noticing the moon cycles. Like this is natural ebbing and flowing. ’cause we’re, you’re so closely aligned with, uh, those types of seasonal and cosmological cycles.

So. You know, and going back and forth. So in the average cycle for women is 28 days. They close to the lunar cycle. Now that is just an average. So some women think there’s something wrong if they have their period, you know, uh, less than that. Maybe it’s 24, 25 days. Maybe it’s 30 or 35 days. Totally fine, right?

There’s a whole range there. Generally speaking, if we’re looking at like about two day, two, excuse me, two weeks after your period starts, after day one of bleeding, that’s when ovulation is going to happen. So for you, yes, spot on, uh, you’re probably, you know, very different place from mentally. Different things are ticking and your light is on and you’re noticing that’s a wonderful time to connect with other people to work on these creative projects.

And, you know, one thing I recommend, and this is based on traditional cultural wisdom, indigenous cultures around the world, and also I think just logic as well. I, I know very few women that actually wanna do a lot of things when they’re in their heavy bleeding days. But like the first two, three days, just resting more, not doing a lot of strenuous activity, giving yourself permission to do that and that, that helps your body detoxify and let go and cleanse on on many levels.

And so if you were to schedule something then, or like a hike, it might not. Feel very good. Right. It might actually even, uh, be uncomfortable or painful for a lot of women or just pushing through. It might spiral symptoms that otherwise wouldn’t show up. So it’s also, yeah, that honoring of what you need when you need it.

Quianna: This, to me is a new phenomenon. Like this is. Like ancient wisdom that I feel like unfortunately a lot of us women have lost touch with, right? Like we, whether it’s society and culture or what, but, and of course it’s taboo, right? Like even having this conversation today with you and we just met, like just hopped onto this zoom chat together.

Whitney’s Path In Mindset And Hormonal Work

I haven’t hugged you in real life yet, but like having these conversations for some people can feel taboo, can feel like, oh, sh shh. Like we don’t talk about that. Right? So I love that we are kind of opening this book to learn about our own bodies and how we can I. Maximize this knowledge so we can actually scale and we can grow and we can do some mindset shifts with this.

Whitney: Yes, absolutely. And, you know, conserving your time and energy in times when it’s very helpful to do so. And then you might have other swings where you have more time and energy left. So I think it supports you to be, you know, very balanced and efficient by bringing in your hormones and, and yes, I think we’re so desperate for these conversations.

Listening Better To Your Intuition

I mean, I’ve been doing this. You know, full-time, 10 years, and I’ve been specializing in hormonal health that whole time, and the conversation was completely nonexistent when I first got into this. And now that’s changing. And women are realizing, regardless of level of education or background, it’s just part of who we are.

Quianna: Yes. And I love it. I love that we’re having this conversation. So I would love to learn a little bit more about you, Whitney, and I’d love to hear about if it’s a one particular mind shift or some type of mindset shift or breakthrough, uh, moments that you have experienced that have led you to this work.

How did you get started with all this?

Whitney: Oh, so many canon and you know, I’ve been a yogi for now, like 24 years, uh, regularly. And with that comes so much mindset, work and consciousness. And I think for me, that’s just something I’m always looking at, nurturing in my self-care practices, my spiritual practices, that there’s something there that I’m looking at because I know how powerful the mind is and thoughts.

And so if I’m not conscious, it could spiral and go in a negative direction, right? Um, and then life is not as fun. Also doing deep inner healing work as well of like, you know, I’ve done different mindful practices for like 90 days straight ’cause I’m working through a major block. Like I did that once about deep listening.

I was at a crucible in my life and I was really struggling with where to go. This is actually close to before when I opened Four Seasons Harmony in 2015 and like the year before that. Very transformative. And I was knee deep and what is my soul work? How can I express my gifts? Like, and um, a lot of things hadn’t worked or had not worked in the ways that I’d wanted to.

Bringing enough contentment and fulfilling my basic needs and all sorts of things. And so. I really took a very deep step back and I remember wanting to activate deep listening and really listening to my own inner voice, regardless of what the world was saying. And I got a lot of answers and downloads that came through, and I did a vision board at that time.

And like everything that I didn’t have, I eventually created in the foundational aspects of my practice, which I do all the time now. So I think believing in, you know, myself and visions. Believing that self-care and health doesn’t have to be compromised with our job. In fact, yeah, it can be a source of tremendous strength and empowerment.

Quianna: Yes, yes. I love that. And I love that you mentioned, ’cause I wanna dig deeper into this too. I love how you mentioned the power of listening, so, so let me ask you, ’cause I’m like, wait, I wanna learn more. Were you in a state where you realized maybe you weren’t? When you say listening, was that. Not listening to your intuition, was that maybe wanting to have deeper connections with friendships and relationships and you just found yourself kind of being a talker and not being a listener.

Like can you unpack that a little bit? Like what did you mean by becoming a better listener?

Whitney: Yes, for sure. I think to my own inner voice at that time, and I mean, I generally have a reputation for being a deep listener like my whole life. And I’ve tried to bring so much of that into my practice ’cause so many women don’t receive that.

Just deep, unconditional listening and acceptance. But I, I think I got into a patterning for a long time of really quieting my inner voice or really buying into other people’s voices more than my own. And intuitive work was a big part of that healing for me, and it still is really learning to listen to my intuition and like those gut feelings when it felt like it was right, would always work out.

And then if it didn’t, I tried to move forward, it, it wouldn’t, and then I would regret that decision. And so yeah, strengthening that inner muscle for myself, so I was clearer on the yeses. And if there was like a maybe or a no. I was better at waiting and getting curious and making sure I was really clear before moving forward instead of just kind of unconsciously going through things and sometimes that not working out.

Oh

Quianna: my gosh. I love that so much and I’m so happy that you mentioned that because I do feel as a collective just how it’s kind of taboo or hush hush or kind of a lost. Wisdom when it comes to our cycles and our hormones. I also believe that our intuition has also been dimly lit, right? So if it’s this vibrant light that we are born with and we have access to, I do feel like over the years it just keeps getting dimmer and dimmer and dimmer and, and we’re constantly looking for outside validation.

We’re we’re, oh, how do I do this next business move? And, you know, you invest in coaches and you in, you know, invest in all this time and money and energy into others. Waiting for them to tell you what’s next. Right? Like waiting for them to give you that golden ticket like we’re in Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.

Or you know, fast pass, like we’re in Disneyland. Like how can we get to this result faster? When in reality we need to strengthen our intuition. Ooh, I love that so much. I, I think

Whitney: it’s one of our gifts as women and a lot of my teachers and elders have taught me that as well and given a lot of specific practices.

I also hold space for my women to cultivate their intuition, and I’m passing that on now. To them. It is absolutely critical. I think the amount of time and energy that it saves in my life is immeasurable. And then beyond that, just finding that trust within myself and feeling aligned and, and not compromising that I feel true to myself.

And more content within.

Quianna: Yeah. So how can someone kind of like rev up or brighten that light of intuition? I would love to dig deeper into this.

Whitney: One of the first things that came up as, uh, heart meditations and really listening and tuning into this field. I think that. We’re at a place collectively where we’re having these conversations more often and helping to just feel more, feel our emotions on exactly how we’re feeling.

That’s often how our start intuition practices and not up here as much, not the mind, not the analytical logical piece we need. It is beautiful, but not having that be separate from, and so, so listening here and. I think love is an emotion we can all identify with very easily, and I think our entire society revolves around that.

Right? It’s, it’s just so critical. Nobody would think of living a fulfilling life without love. But then how do we describe that and like, can we measure that? I know there’s the HeartMath Institute and things, but. Generally speaking, that’s something we can’t really see, but we feel, so that’s what I want my women to really familiarize themselves with more and trusting that feeling.

Yeah, and, and it’s okay how to have the spectrum of anything showing up. But then also pairing that with that signaling of like then, okay, does this feel right for me? What do I need more of? What do I need less of? Like I’ll often do a lot of self inquiries and there’s no right or wrong here. These are very open-ended questions and they might change from day to day.

Just kind of honoring how is my intuition right now? Can I feel into that and,

Quianna: and honor it. I love that and I love that you’re giving the women in your, in your circle, you know, in your community, the opportunity to tap into something that is familiar. ’cause to me, as soon as you mentioned kind of like feeling love and like how to describe that, right?

Like. We are all familiar with that. Like we know what love is, right? Like we know when we are attracted to something, when something feels good, when even just having a new family member join your family, right? New babies in your life, like you’ve just met this little soul and this human, but like the love you feel is just like so deep, right?

And. And so I feel like that is such a beautiful reminder, or almost like a Kickstarter to kind of like self-regulate, right? Where you’re like, cool, you can recognize that feeling, you can recognize that love. Now how does that transpire into, right, like into your other relationships, to your growth, to listening to that inner wisdom, like so would you say you almost use your heart as a compass?

Whitney: Absolutely. I’ve done, you know, heart meditations or affirmations. Sometimes, many times throughout a day, if I feel like there’s a disconnection there, I’m having trouble feeling into it. And some days I feel like it’s very much in the flow and I can find that easily and sometimes not at all.

That’s when I bring in those little practices more. It could just be like one or two minutes. But having that consistency, so that’s helped me really shift to feeling like I’m living a genuinely heart-centered life and, and being okay with everything that’s showing up.

Quianna: I love this. Well, and and it even makes me think too, because just when you sent that said that little trigger word for me, which is heart-centered, right?

Mm-hmm. It’s just so, like, I would love to, to dig deeper into this too, because I think when I hear that someone is a heart-centered business, the first thing that comes to mind, or I should say what used to come to mind is cool, like they are actively. Pushing out love, right? Like they’re probably a really kind person.

They are like a people over profit kind of person, right? Like I, I love when people say they’re heart centered because of all the love that they’re giving, right? Like the attention to detail, the services they’re providing, like they go above and beyond for their clients. And what’s so funny is I literally just got this little light bulb chatting with you today.

Where, wait a second. What if that is flipped? Meaning like being a heart-centered business really means that you’re following your own heart, like you’re following your own gut. Like you’re listening, like you mentioned, listening to that intuition. Whoa. Like my mind is blown right now. Like thinking of switching.

That just kind of like that definition.

Whitney: That is incredibly beautiful. Yes, I agree. And. I continue to have mindset shifts and, and breakthroughs or just living life and. You know, staying on a path of inner seeking and personal development. And I remember when I was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I went to college and I was very happy there.

And I remember seeing a lot of truly embodied heart-centered businesses and I could just feel it. And I was considering massage schools for many years. That was something I eventually did a Creston Healing Arts Center, Colorado, but leading up to that time, and it was at the Santa Fe School of Massage. I was talking with the owner when day.

She’s incredibly beautiful woman. You, you just cannot deny how heart synergy is truly, which I don’t think is always just being a loving person. I think both are very important, but bringing that element into your daily life in your work. You know, really living into the values of that on all levels of business.

And she was doing it, and I had the most amazing healing and experiences there. I had so many sessions and you know, she’s like, well, wherever you go, just make sure it’s heart-centered. That was like her only advice for me. She’s like, because that’s so important, you know, as a healer. And then. I took that with me and I’ve seen a lot of a piece.

You know, I don’t really feel that in everywhere, in some places I do. So it’s very palpable when you start to observe this and, and feel for yourself too. Like do you, can you receive that connection? Is it given to you or, or not?

Quianna: Yes. Oh my gosh, yes. Okay. So how can we, I feel like we can go down this rabbit hole for hours and hours and hours, but how can we link our intuition and our hormones?

And is there a link or am I just trying to create, I love full circle moments. That’s like my thing. Like can we find a correlation between our hormones and intuition? Absolutely.

Whitney: And, and that’s where I always go with my women doing like a, a deeper advanced work on, you know, sustainable health and long-term healing.

So. Feeling supported with chronic health imbalances. They’re reducing, alleviating chronic pain. They’re feeling like, uh, they have more balance and vitality and energy. Um, they’re living a long, healthy life. And to do that, I, I believe that intuition is critical to not just have short-term symptomatic relief, to have that be something that stays for the long term because we’re so naturally intuitive, I think, as women.

And that’s, again, just one of our gifts. And so. Honoring that which we are and letting that express as well. I think sometimes if we suppress our natural gifts, there can be a lot of pain and confusion and so then by listening to that, like there’s nothing wrong for sure with something like a male medical model, but it’s just a very different hormonal system.

If you’re looking at, I should feel the same way every day. That’s my end goal, and I completely, you know, deconstruct that paradigm. I’m like, that’s not the end goal, because you’ll always be disappointed. You think there’s something wrong, and so if you’re stepping more into your intuition, then you’re okay with natural cycles.

You’re okay with changing your self-care practices every several days. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s like it frees you so much emotionally and then you can make more informed and better decisions of what you need to do to

Quianna: keep your hormones balanced. Yes. This is such a beautiful reminder, and I feel like once again, this is a full circle moment because having that awareness of what your body needs are, right, like actually listening to your body.

That is your hormones too, right? Like listening to your hormones and like what those needs are. And then that easily translates into having deeper connection with your intuition, right? Because like you’ve mentioned, like if you’re, I don’t know, like in one system of your cycle or one week of your cycle and you have to push out some big project for work or you, you know, you’re on stage and you have to be on, and really you just wish you could crawl in a ball and just like, just relax for a day or two, right?

Like whatever that feels like, like it’s all connected. We have to be aware of this. Now, what advice would you give to someone? That still needs to push through. So let’s say something’s on the calendar and it happens to be during a tough week, you know, what are some practices or some strategies that we can do?

So, you know, we, we do have to show up in our lives in business. Like I, I wish we could just curl up in a ball and take a nap for three days, but. What if that’s not the case for someone in a particular time?

Whitney: Yes. And that is a tough one, Colt, for sure. Um, I think that the more we’re in touch with some natural rhythms, the more helpful it is for us.

Planning things in advance and making commitments. I mean, nothing works out perfectly or has we plan, but you know, my moment get to the point where they don’t schedule anything when they know that their heavy bleeding days are coming, so they haven’t locked themselves into a commitment that would be difficult.

To fulfill in the first place. And they were like, I am not gonna travel that week and that’s gonna be my stay at home time. And then the next weekend that would be perfect. Uh, or say yes to the speaking engagement, whatever that is what they need to be more on externally. And I, you know, that’s a practice.

I think in the long term, it’d be great if the culture also supported us. Like in India, they give women a day off on their bleeding days and it’s like, there’s nothing wrong with that. We respect women equally, but it’s just better for you to rest that day. We don’t want you to do something that’s, I.

Really out of what you most need that day for your health and wellbeing.

Quianna: Oh my gosh. What a concept, right? Like what a concept, like, wow. Oh my gosh, this is so fascinating to me and I just wanna continue learning. So what would you say, Whitney, are some of the challenges that your clients have experienced and you know, how do you get them to their desires?

Like how do you really make that transformation for them?

Whitney: Well, going back to listening, I mean really holding space to. Listen to their for themselves, what’s important to them, what do they not have that is something so valuable to them. And I’m not talking monetary value. I mean things that are intangible and priceless.

And I take that time with every single woman. I set that up from the very beginning and I just, al also created a very comprehensive intake process. So. You spend hours getting to know each woman as the beautiful, incredibly unique woman that she is. How there’s natural differences too that we can’t lump things into a general one size fits all approach.

I talk about all the time because it is still something that I. So many my women struggle with and they feel like they keep plateauing. It’s like, okay, I can’t get further. What should I do? They’re so confused and so giving space for them to get in touch with themselves and guiding them through gentle and loving questions and then them having clarity and aha moments, and sometimes they’ve never gone there or they have something that’s just been inside, they’ve never articulated or shared it, and so that’s just a very sacred space to be in.

It’s like the universe opens doors after that. They get that clarity, I’m clear to support them. And then I’m bringing in, you know, thousands of years of, uh, time-tested evidence-based wisdom from holistic health systems, lots of tools and strategies, and then I’m organizing it for them. So we’re focusing on the heavy hitter things first, and then other things will open up along the way in our journey together.

Quianna: Oh my gosh, that sounds incredible. And you’re right, it’s, it’s meeting people where they are. I think sometimes we can have these conversations and we wanna like self-diagnose or we wanna say, oh, well that sounds like me. Or That does, but that doesn’t, and I feel like that’s where we do get kind of lost in the sauce a little bit.

We, we start, of course we’re always learning, but, um, it is, it’s all about investing in an expert like you, someone that has. Access to that wisdom that is so willing to share and to help us be more in tune with our bodies. Like our bodies are so powerful, and I really do feel like this. Is a superhero moment or like the superpower moment that you have that you can tap into to, to share your gifts and to, you know, to actually scale your business and to develop those mindset shifts.

Because we can have all the strategies, we can have all of the shortcuts and know all the platforms to grow and scale our businesses, but if. We are not listening to our bodies if we’re not taking care of ourselves first. I mean, I don’t think you’re gonna get very far. You’re gonna plateau, like you mentioned.

Whitney: Absolutely, yes. Burnout most likely as well. If you’re denying your soul’s voice, it’s just, there’s something there, right? That’ll never really allow you to fully express yourself in, in your practice. I have found this many of my women, so my specialty is holistic health and wellness and I’ve been an entrepreneur for 10 years and this has been something I’ve been doing women owned, uh, for a long time.

So I love bringing alignment into everything that I do, and I put so many blinders on of like, this is not what I’m about at all. That making sure self-care and health is at the foundation of everything I do. And I hold myself very accountable. Like, if I’m leading this and I’m teaching this to other women, I need to do this myself as well.

So make sure I practice what I preach. And then I, I’ve seen every single woman I, it took me, I don’t know, maybe seven, eight years of watching this consistently before I started noticing these patterns and talking about it more. But every single woman that did long lasting healing and health, transformational work, and they started feeling better, they had a lot more stability.

They worked through some kind of chronic health imbalance, made a significant career change. If it wasn’t working out for them what they were doing, they couldn’t take it anymore. And they finally had enough encouragement and positivity and hope and faith that it would work out. And I’m right there along the way, you know, cheering them on.

I believe in them a thousand percent. And it always worked out better every single time. And I was thinking, oh, maybe they, they did a deep dive. They left their career, they started this new thing. Maybe it’ll take several years or to pick up. I just never saw that happen. And so truly attesting to the power of that healing transformation, your own inner light and self-care as being a birthplace for a very solid and purposeful career.

Quianna: Yes. Oh my gosh. I’m like cheering over here like, yes, yes, yes, I am For these transformations, I’m for these big leaps of faith. None of that would be possible without tapping into that awareness. I love this so much so I, it’s so funny. I was gonna start to wrap us up and I’m like, I’m not done yet. I have a couple more questions.

Yeah. So if it’s okay, I would love to talk about those natural gifts that you were mentioning. I know that is something that you specialize in is helping us become more aware of these natural gifts. Because I do believe, and I’m like, Ooh, getting the chills thinking about it, that so many women, especially the heart-centered and heart led, um, business owners, we are so close to the business that we’re, we’re providing, right?

Like it, we’re so close to it. And sometimes we can even dim our gifts and our talents because we kind of get lost in the sauce. We kind of start getting our hands into too many different things and offering too many offers. Right? And so like. What advice would you have for someone that is ready to monetize their gifts, right, and to, to really step into that power.

Um, but they may be feeling like, wait, this, this isn’t easy for everybody else, too. Like, it may not feel like a talent.

Whitney: I think that if you’re looking at making any, you know, lasting career change or starting something new and having this be part of your stability out in the world. All of your inner stuff is going to come out.

And so don’t think that we can avoid that. It’s just not possible. It will. But that’s part of the beauty. You know, I was talking with an amazing group of spiritual women entrepreneurs recently, and just looking back at something, you know, like I like the woman that I’ve become along the way, learning what I need to learn to be out in the world successfully, and also feel really true and aligned to my soul that both are possible.

And it’s okay not to know everything and still feel like it’s a complete yes. Moving forward. Having support as well. I think I’ve always had mentors and just having that village of women supporting women and like listening to you and getting support from Kiana, it makes all the difference in the world because yeah, trying to do it on your own, like it, it’s gonna take longer.

You’ll stay longer in the challenges. You know, you fall down and it’ll be harder to pick yourself back up. Um, but you know, it’s doable. Like, you know, if you have that inspiration and vision, just never stop believing in it, and all the other things will eventually line up.

Quianna: Ooh. I love it so much. Yes. And that’s, that’s something that I have personally struggled with for, for many years where, you know, even just with the photography thing and then stepping more into, I’m calling it intuitive content coaching, which has been so fun, but that’s not something that people are Googling, right?

So I have to be a little more. Just more aware of that, right? Like, how am I marketing this? Because that’s not something that most people are typing into their Google or, you know, searching on Pinterest. But it is like, it’s, it’s that awareness like, wait a second. Like this is something that feels so in alignment with my soul.

And yet I feel like it’s like, but really like, do people need this? Like, is that something that they’re looking for? And it is, it’s, it’s just getting it out there and sharing it and then. Really having this full circle moment of aligning, you know, your hormones and your intuition, and then taking action.

It’s, it’s all aligned. Mind, body, soul, spirit, all the things. Yes, I love it. And we’re

Whitney: able to do our gifts, like if that’s what we’re here for too, your hormones will help with that and. Having that creative expression flow through you, it completes something for you. That is medicine too.

Quianna: Ah, so beautiful.

Whitney’s Key Tip

Amazing. Well, one question I love to ask every guest, Whitney, what is your key tip? What is something that you wish you knew sooner or something you’d love to share with entrepreneurs today? Yes, I feel like.

Whitney: Relaxing into learning and growth that you can have a lot of mastery and skill to share that will get you started and you don’t have to have everything figured out.

So I tend to be the type A perfectionist, uh, you know, type of women even quietly. Um, and so I can be so hard on myself with failure, but like it’s gonna happen. And so I’ve been able to reframe that to learning and I wish I knew that earlier. And it’s so much easier today. So I’m like, okay, if I. It showed up and I did my best and it wasn’t the outcome that I’d hoped for or wasn’t perfect, or I might have to do it 10 times before I feel really good at it that all of that is a, a win.

There’s nothing wrong with that. It would’ve been failure if I hadn’t tried. So that’s just a lot easier for me now and you know, I wish the same for you.

Quianna: Ah, amazing. Oh my gosh. I love that. And that is such a beautiful reminder, especially as we are continuing to grow and experiencing these mindset shifts.

This is the perfect conversation for this mindset series. Thank you, Whitney. I. I truly believe that as well, that it’s just a journey. Life is a journey. You never know who you’re gonna meet along the way and what mindset shifts are gonna happen, and nothing is a waste. Everything is a lesson, and we’re just gonna continue growing and shining, and I just, I love that answer.

Thank you. I would love for you to share, how can we connect with you, how can we learn more and be your BFF. Oh,

Whitney: yes, I, I’d love to be on touch and stay connected and anyone, like, any, uh, feel free to reach out anytime. I’d love to get to know you. We could have a conversation, relax and complimentary about your health goals and challenges, dreams, any ways I can support you.

So my website, four Seasons Harmony is, you know, a breadth of knowledge and support and resources for you available 24 7. And, uh, there’s um, epic free trainings, like Seven Steps to Creating Lasting Home Mental Health. That you can download and I’d be ha very happy to share with you to support you on your health and healing journey.

Quianna: Incredible. Yay. And where are you located? Can you share where you are? I love when we list, like we’re listening and then all of a sudden we’re like, wait a second, we’re in different parts of the world. So where are you located?

Whitney: I. I know it’s so cool with the internet, um, to connect with everyone. Um, so I am in Western Virginia in Massat and Mountain.

I’m in the wilderness in the woods, and I, you know, work with people virtually all across the country, internationally I have for 10 years. Um, so yeah, you’re always welcome here and we can always connect online too.

Quianna: Incredible. Yay. Thank you. Well, thank you for your time, your energy, your love today. It was such a joy chatting with you, and I cannot wait to connect soon.

Likewise. This is such a pleasure, Quianna. I appreciate you

Whitney: so much. Take really good care.

Quianna: Thank you. Oh my goodness. I learned so much about our bodies and how we can prioritize the health of our hormones, strengthen our intuition, and monetize our gifts. Hello, Kaga ching. If you found this conversation impactful, please let us know and share with a friend.

Make sure to follow along with Whitney on Instagram at Whitney Four Seasons Harmony and check out four Seasons harmony.com for more info too. I’m honored to open up these conversations to help us learn more about our bodies, listen to our guts and lead more heart-centered businesses. It’s truly a joy to share this business journey with you, and I’m so happy you’re here.

And I would love to extend the conversation to hear more about your life and business and how I can help you reach your goals more efficiently, backed by your intuition and your passions. Seriously. Slide into my dms. If you have my number. Text me. I wanna talk, I wanna chat. I wanna help us reach our goals and our ambitions.

Not even necessarily faster, but just, just stronger and better and like, oh, all the fields, right? You are powerful my love. Our world needs your magic. Please stop playing small. Listen to your body, follow your instincts, and dare to dream bigger. Can’t wait to chat again next week. This mindset series is seriously blowing me away.

Ooh, I love it so much and I’m so happy you’re here. Keep on dancing, baby. Okay. Can’t wait to chat next week. Hey, love you. Bye. That’s a wrap on another episode of Quianna Marie Weekly. Thank you so much for your listenership and support. You can find the resources and show notes for this episode and more at quiannamarie.com/podcast.

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