Activating Ancestral Embodiment in Business

For this blog, I share a golden nugget of a podcast that I was a guest speaker on recently - the Feminine Business School podcast with the phenomenal Ainslie Young, an award-winning Feminine Embodiment Coach and Business Mentor.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you may sense that feminist business is a huge driver for me as a woman business owner. I am always in search of inspiring leaders in this field to support and motivate me in doing business from a feminine perspective. Ainslie is one of these leaders.

The Feminine Business School podcast is a rare show, where I can say I’ve listened to every episode. In a previous life, I spent 14 years heading up the education and innovation programmes in a large Irish human rights organisation. The work was incredible but the way of operating was hyperproductive. I did the whole ‘Lean In’ thing and I burned out.

Over and over again.

When I launched the Celtic School of Embodiment, I could not risk this same behavioural pattern and so, I’ve been incredibly intentional in how I work. Ainslie has been an immense source of wisdom here demonstrating how we can create wildly successful and pleasurable businesses without burning out our bodies and selling out our values.

So when Ainslie asked me to be a guest speaker on the Feminine Business School podcast to take a deep dive into Activating Ancestral Embodiment in Business, my response was a full-bodied hell YES!

Ainslie is also a member of our Celtic Woman’s Voyage programme so we have the delight of journeying through the Celtic Calendar together in sacred sisterhood.

In this interview you’ll hear Ainslie and myself explore:

++  How connecting to your Mythical Ancestors can deeply support you and your business (or indeed your work ethic if you are not a business owner)

++ The beautiful and poignant myth about the selkie, the shapeshifting seal woman, which is extremely relevant to women in business today, and showcases distinct parallels with the hypermasculine/hyperproductive world we live and work in

++ The fascinating connection between the ‘Witch Wound’ and the vilification of women’s wealth in the context of Ireland’s first witch trial

++ How I partner with a Guiding Goddess/’Patroness’ of my business and the three things I do each day to weave pleasure into my work and all that I create

Trust me, there is something for everyone in this episode!

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