Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela (Isha Vela)

Have you ever had flashbacks, nightmares, or other PTSD symptoms during a time of stability or when things are actually going well in your life?

Maybe you've found yourself bursting into tears or shaking uncontrollably after really connected sex.

Or feeling anxious and hypervigilant on the vacation of your dreams.

In this episode, I share a paradoxical phenomenon that happens when you finally feel safe after a long time of NOT feeling safe.

This is trauma-informed wisdom that you can apply to practically every context of your life, from your relationship with money to your love relationships and of course, to your business.

Specifically, I talk about:

-the connection between safety and trauma release/integration, offering examples of what that process can look like;

-how creating internal safety can accelerate your processing power and capacitate your system to receive more wealth in all forms;

-how centering your healing process in your business might look during more intense periods in order to increase its sustainability over the long term.

Many of us are familiar with spiritual bypassing and brightsiding, but are you aware of the more subtle ways we weaponize spiritual shame in healing spaces?

Of course, the point of this conversation is to recognize how you might be weaponizing spiritual shame within your own internal experience.

Examples of subtle forms of spiritual shame in coaching containers:

• Guiding someone to feel better because you're uncomfortable with their pain
• Trying to rescue them from their feelings
• Helping someone by promoting their dependence on you
• Protecting them from moving at their own pace
• Being in the discomfort of their own messy, imperfect process.

In this episode, I dive into two of these examples with more detail and share why acceptance is a much more powerful alchemist than "improvement."

In this episode of the podcast I sat down with spiritual rebel, prosperity coach, and hypnotist Pattie Belle (PB) Hastings, who among MANY other things supports people in healing ancestral money wounds. 

PB had me when in one of our conversations she said, "Money is not a need, money is a strategy to meet a need."

I was gobsmacked and delighted and knew I HAD to share this conversation with you.

In the podcast, we get into debunking some of the abundance mindset myths by diving into some of the layers and complexities of working with money wounds, especially from a trauma-informed lens.

She takes me through her 4-step Compassionate Communication process (the worksheet is linked below) to reveal some of my discomfort about not owning a credit card when I go on vacation.

Repair is such a critical but underemphasized aspect of intimacy in relationships. 

Relationships are messy, and you're humxn, so both of those combined are guaranteed to have you up in some repair work soon.

The good news is that conflict is an opportunity for deeper intimacy and connection when there's self-ownership and truth.

It can even be a healing experience, as it was for me. 

In this episode I get into:

When we experience trauma, we experience disruptions in attachment that cut into our inherent sovereignty. These disruptions alter the relational nervous system and are often the source of our suffering in relationships with ourselves and in partnerships.

In addition to these attachment-related developmental trauma that form templates of disconnection from our essential selves, we also develop unhealthy attachments to systems of power.

Returning to the truth of your sovereignty is an uncolonizing process of mind-body-spirit that requires a healthy and secure attachment to all of your inner parts, including your inner children, your triggers, and your shadow.

When you receive money, do you fully let it into your system or do you feel the appreciation for a moment and move on to the next thing?

When you think about making more money, do you feel the energy of grasping and desperation in the background?

Do you believe that the money in your bank account actually belongs to you?

This episode is the last of 3 expert classes on embodying wealth designed to transform your relationship with money so you can stack bills and create revolutionary riches!

In it I go meta on your ass and share the most important lessons about the energy of money I learned from exploring love anarchy, specifically:

-How much of our money healing (similar to love relationships) involves letting go of possessiveness, grasping, and codependency/

-Why you can have a lot and still feel scarce; and

-A radical way to celebrate money AND support your economic expansion; 

Listen and free yourself financially!

Welcome to the uncovered and unveiled, fully transparent BTS humxning of the Sovereign Business Accelerator launch!

In this episode I touch on some key pieces of live launching, emotional leadership, and energetics most business coaches don't talk about.

Some might even surprise you. (Hint: don't always avoid overwhelm.)

I share my launch strategy and why I chose it; 

the natural cycle of a launch and what to expect;

how I held my humxn throughout being sick and releasing trauma; and 

how I dealt with overwhelm when I made some miscalculations with my schedule. 

I also share what's coming down the pipeline, so listen until the end!

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I didn't understand the importance of messaging and copy until 2 years ago, and it showed in my sales!

Even though my writing was inspiring, it wasn't fully communicating the value of my offer. There was too much jargon and people couldn't connect why somatic work was going to transform how they related to their business or the impact they'd be able to make.

Enter Tasha Christie, copy queen and Human Design specialist, who let me know within 2 days of finding her online that she was the person who was going to help me get specific and spicy about my offers!

In this episode she goes over the most common mistakes spiritual entrepreneurs make in their sales copy (there are many, so listen up) and suggests how each Human Design type can center their zone of genius in their writing.

Finally, she addresses my favorite: the energetics (potency) behind your words as the key to increasing your sales and later, cultural contracts that keep you small in your business.

Yes, we talk about what it means to make money as folks of color. It gets WAY juicy and real.

Follow Tasha on Facebook and find out about her Write Like a Millionaire Program:

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Their greatest hope is for activated Presence to make "trying" irrelevant.

Li is a co-conspirator and dear one, and in this episode we dive deep into the human energy body and its healing potential, specifically focusing on bodily autonomy, their version of sovereignty, and its intersection with social justice. 

We're looking at how ancestral currents of thinking and global collective trauma is actually tricking us into a reflexive avoidance and repetitive loss of self-determined, autonomous, sovereign choice and how we get tricked is thinking that we can abdicate responsibility for the way things are.

That is, we give up our power.

So, instead of the World As It Is being a relational, adaptive, and attuned emergence of initiation, acknowledgement, and celebration of what we have to give as sovereign, autonomous beings.

Thinking 7 generations ahead and visioning in terms of dream body autonomy, it's about what we can manage to maintain in the short term frequency of our lives.

Autonomy and sovereignty in terms of healing the past-present-future have everything to do with the power that comes with states of clear and present awe.

Awe of the self.

Awe of depths of suffering.

Awe over the tidal waves of intergenerational rage and collective experiences of genocide and grief.

Awe of our personal capacity for love and joy in the midst of incalculable loss.

Awe over the beauty that grows in us every time we're brought to our knees.

Hold on to your pelvises, folks, this whole episode is one big transmission.

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Do you feel financially irresponsible because you've accrued so much debt?

Did you feel like you made a wrong turn somewhere in life because you're not where you thought you would be financially? 

These thoughts and feelings about money are overcoupled with shame, and in this episode, you're going to learn to shed that money shame so that you can steward your stack with confidence. 

This is the second in a series of expert classes on money, intimacy, trauma, and the nervous system, designed to help you transform your relationship with wealth so that you and your business can thrive!

In this episode I share: 

-my story about releasing shame around my finances and how I uncoupled my worthiness from how much money I made or didn't make;

-how the stories you make up about people reveal where you're not letting yourself receive;

-5 principles to help you uncouple your identity from the amount of money in your bank account. 

Are you ready to go intimate and deep with your dollars? 

This is the first of a series of expert classes on money, intimacy, trauma, and the nervous system, to help you transform your relationship with wealth so that you and your business can thrive.

You're going to want to grab a pen and journal to take notes!

In this episode I dive into:

-The sociopolitical realities of money and how they've contributed to money trauma;

-What limits your capacity to receive, hold, and manage money;

-Simple ways to understand your avoidance and anxiety with money;

-The 5 intimacy archetypes and how each relates to money;

-Revealing questions that uncover your unconscious relationship with money.

I invited Lisa Kuzman, leadership expert and trauma educator, to the podcast to talk about being okay with not being okay based on an epic Facebook post she wrote several weeks ago where she talked about how terrorized many leaders were of sharing our struggles, especially when we're holding space for other people in theirs.

Lisa Kuzman is the host of the New Wave Leadership podcast, founder of READY - a trauma sensitive certification program, and business coach to entrepreneurs with a complex history of trauma. 

In this episode we get into paving the path to New Wave Leadership by leading with our messy humanity without anything needing to be fixed or changed.

We got super fucking honest about what happens when our traumas get reactivated, mental health issues resurface, and ego deaths force you to reorient to the world in a new way.

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Have you tried to incorporate more downtime in your business and find yourself feeling guilty, restless, more anxious, obsessing about work, or just going right back into your old patterns?

In this episode I talk about sustainability in business from the perspective of somatics, specifically unwinding from hustle mode, preventing burnout, and managing overwhelm so that you can play the long game of entrepreneurship!

I start the episode by acknowledging how the last several years have forced us all to slow down, that we're in a collective evolution moving from DOING to BEING, and that this is being reflected in the way we show up for our businesses.

I define what a sustainable business is and note why we can get caught up doing business in ways that burn us out.

I offer 3 questions you can ask yourself that will help you develop a stronger connection to your body, ultimately repairing the rupture between head and body created by societal conditioning.

I also provide ways you can soothe yourself through the discomfort and anxiety that might arise when you begin to slow down and rest more. 

Join the Sovereign Biz Accelerator 6-month group program for witchy healers and revolutionary entrepreneurs! (Doors close March 29th)

https://ishavela.com/sovereign-business-accelerator/

Did you know that the biggest names in business and finance have been using astrologers to help them predict trends and changes in the market? 

With Pluto leaving Capricorn and entering Aquarius for the next 20 years, we're entering a new cycle of how we do business and in what technologies we invest in. 

I invited Karrie Myers (aka SelfKarrie), astrological guide and soon-to-be financial advisor and wealth asset manager to offer you some valuable information on where we're headed so that you can shift your business to meet the rising trends.

Karrie has provided astrological advisement to companies like Pinterest and Roblox, and has been a featured astrologer in San Francisco's Gate magazine and Redfin's Real Estate blog.

In this potent episode, Karrie shares her story of how she was thrown into astrology and wealth management, as well as:

-what Pluto leaving Capricorn represents for capitalism and other institutions

-what Aquarian investment models may look like and what this means for how you do business

-how AI will transform how we exist and relate to one another in society.

If this eclipse season hasn't already shifted the way you do business, 

Listen to "What Pluto Entering Aquarius Means for the Future of Your Business with Karrie Myers" and get ready to make some powerful pivots after listening to this episode!

This episode on trauma triggers and lack of safety, both in relationships and in coaching containers, is looong overdue!

Often, when we hear someone feels unsafe, it comes out as an accusation ("I feel triggered, it's your fault, and you need to fix it so I'm no longer uncomfortable.")

But nervous system activations are not a bad thing; in fact, they are an invitation to heal and expand into the life you desire to create.

In this episode, I dive into what a trigger is, what's actually going on under the surface, the steps to responding versus reacting, trigger warnings, and how to use discernment/boundaries around getting triggered.

Join the Sovereign Biz Accelerator 6-month group program for witchy healers and revolutionary entrepreneurs! (Doors close March 29th)

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Have you ever felt like manifestation was this mysterious concept you couldn't fully understand, get into or get right?

On this episode of the podcast, my friend and biz partner Bruriyah DeLeon shares her 10 year personal journey of studying manifestation and feeling like something was missing, until she had an "emotional awakening" and discovered shadow work as a critical cornerstone of the manifestation process.

Bruriyah is a manifestation powerhouse, the creatrix of Trauma Informed Manifestational Arts (TIMA) AND the owner of Vortex Financial, the financial planning firm I also work for. She blends both the practical and magical pieces of manifestation within a trauma-informed, collectivist lens. 

Some related topics we dive into on this episode:

The central role emotions play in the process of manifestation and how to alchemize them;

How to hold the complexity of both spiritual and humxn aspects of life;

The pleasure and kink of shadow work;

Why shame is such a cockblocker and a practice to help dissolve it.

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Download my free Nervous System Guide for Revolutionaries from my website:

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Did you get into coaching with the hopes of hitting consistent 6 figures a year but can't seem to break past 3 to 5K months? 

Does it feel hopeless when you think you'll never be able to surpass your parent's earning capacity?

Social mobility isn't always about mindset and embodiment, at least not in the individualistic, pull-up-by-the-bootstrap kind of way it's typically taught.

Sometimes people get sick or burn out and have to take a step back. 

Sometimes lockdowns don't favor your business, or you lose your job.

Sometimes you have mental health setbacks.

Sometimes inequalities are things that can't be "processed" or "worked through."

Hungry for a conversation that acknowledged the bigger picture of social mobility, I sat down with Julie Creffield, author of "How Not to Be Broke: A Book About Money, Self-Worth and Leaving a Lasting Legacy from Your Solopreneur Business." 

Julie is a life and business coach who's created a 6-figure business and has written several books on the subject as well. She's open about her humble origins and talks candidly about some of her struggles shifting out of her social class conditioning and into her true creative and intellectual potential.

In this conversation we storytell some of the nitty gritty internal barriers that have come up for us as part of expanding into a bigger vision than the one we came from and the process of moving through them.

Listen to "The Myth of Social Mobility" with Julie Creffield and come away offering yourself extra grace in the process of growing the business of your ancestor's wildest dreams!

Bodywork and mindset are often spoken of separately, which perpetuates dualism, or the artificial mind-body separation promoted by that little bitch Descartes ("I think, therefore, I am").

I was guilty of this too: there was a time when I thought all beliefs existed in the body and that if I did enough somatic work, I would be free of some of the basic harmful thought patterns that had been with me for most of my life.

Beliefs are neither a top down or bottom up thing. They are bidirectional and relational!

And what I eventually uncovered was that when brain and body come into alignment, you are in your true power.

In this episode I clear up some misconceptions about mindset and the harmful, gaslighty ways it's sometimes used in the coaching industry.

I also want to offer you some body-aligned mindset shifts that allow your body to be the healing machine it's designed to be!

For example:

Using your mind to track what's happening in your nervous system

Attuning to and trusting your emotional experiences

Welcoming sensation (changing the narrative and habit of numbing)

Permission to move your body in ways that are considered irregular or "strange"

Have you ever had a "failed" launch and found yourself thinking that people hate you, nobody wants what you're buying, or that they think the offer's utter shit?

How about when you're having a conversation with a potential client and they decide not to invest in your services even if they've expressed desire to work with you and have the financial means to do so?

What stories do you tell yourself then? Do you tell yourself that they didn't believe you were worth paying? Or that your services weren't up to par? 

What about when you get a whole bunch of new followers on TikTok? What meaning do you make of THAT?

We're going to put an end to your false attachments with my favorite sovereignty hack: make nothing mean anything about you.

In this episode, I talk about the process in which we attach meaning to things in a way that's totally unhelpful and how to uncouple things that happen in your business from who you are. 

I'm also sharing the importance of embodying this hack, and what to expect when you uncouple corrupt concepts through your body.

This hack is going to strengthen your sovereignty and revolutionize how you show up for and in your business!

You're going to feel SO much freer!

Join the Sovereign Biz Accelerator 6-month group program for witchy healers and revolutionary entrepreneurs! (Doors close March 29th)

https://ishavela.com/sovereign-business-accelerator/

It’s the first time a man has come on the Devotional Anarchy podcast, and I’m so glad Max received the honor of being my first.

Maximillian Webster (AKA Diva Dom Daddy) is a rebellious visionary and mystical branding wizard who specializes in mentoring women through overcoming their inner self-imposed limitations and breaking through societal pressure to conform, helping them bring out the radical, unapologetic, and unfuckwithable rockstar that's been hiding within. 

He believes you deserve to build a lifestyle that you don't need a vacation to escape from, a biz that feels like a turn-on, and to be surrounded by people who love, trust, and respect you. 

I invited Max to the podcast because we have a lot of overlap in our work, especially as it relates to identity shifts, shadow work, and personal branding. 

In this conversation, he shares his experiences and practices working with his own identity transformation and shares his framework for working with the archetypes of the Inner Critic, Saboteur, and Perpetrator.

You’re going to come away from this conversation with a whole new way of understanding yourself, working with Shadow parts, and exploring your own identity in your purpose-led work. 

Follow Maximillian on Facebook and Instagram:

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Explore Max's latest offerings:

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Register for my Sovereign Business Accelerator group program Open House (Feb 13th through 17th)!

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It's a new season and a new rebrand! Sometimes it can be hard to let parts of yourself go as you evolve and change, and this episode is about exactly that: embracing evolution in your identity as a leader and how internal change affects how you show up in your personal and professional relationships. 

In this episode I talk about:

-the fears and stories that can come up for us when we share our identity shifts or new ventures 

-somatic insights into the death, rebirth and reclamation process and 

-emotional and practical ways to navigate the pivots in life and business

In this episode of the podcast I'm diving into some nuanced conversations about capacitation few people in the somatics world or the coaching industry really address. 

As you know, nervous system capacitation is the central core of being able to build, have, and manage a business that generates the kind of income that supports your family, your dreams, and your vision.

Because you cannot build a business bigger than what your nervous system can hold. It's not possible. 

And if you try to do it, your body will find all sorts of kinky ways to "sabotage" your efforts in order to keep you in safe, familiar, and comfortable places, even if they're limiting.

In this 20 minute conversation, I share:

-my truth about how the culture of whyteness upholds the current norms and narratives around nervous system regulation;

-the shadow side of holding more capacity;

-the wisdom of collapsing into fear (with a trauma-informed witness to hold you);

-what miracles are possible on the other side of surrendering to dysregulation.

Listen and learn what's actually going to move the needle with regard to transforming your relationship to wealth and freeing yourself financially!

I'm ending the season with a bang, a truly special treat by interviewing one of my favorite people in the coaching industry, my former coach and esteemed colleague Leah Ardent.

Leah (she/they) is a messaging strategist and the founder of the Shamelessly Successful Actualization Agency. Her passion is providing high provision creative vision and somatic support for ambitious coaches, consultants, and creators. 

In this episode we talk about past and future coaching trends, investment trauma, how privilege impacts sales, money energetics, and what it really takes to survive as an entrepreneur in the coaching industry.

I've talked plenty about how to respond when YOU'RE in a contracted state, but what to do when a whole industry is currently contracting?

I sat down with truth teller Leanna Jane Lewis and had a reality checking, unfiltered and unflinching conversation about balanced and nervous system flexible ways to navigate the world of coaching right now. 

Whether you want to believe we're in a recession is up to you, but to deny that the industry has changed is gaslighty AF and doesn't serve you as a humxn whose job it is to witness and hold other humxns.

In the conversation we get into:

reasons why you should and shouldn't lower your prices;

the importance of improvisational skills as a creative, nervous system flex;

the danger of stubbornly holding a vision to the point of self-sabotage;

doubling down on clarifying your messaging and sales copy;

certifications, alternative streams of income, and what it all means.

Explore Leanna's 8-week program, HEAL:

https://www.leannajaneyoga.com/heal.html

Follow Leanna on social media or visit her website:

https://www.instagram.com/leannajanelewis

https://www.leannajaneyoga.com

Download my free Nervous System Guide for Revolutionaries from my website:

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If you feel like you've been getting bitch-slapped by the Universe this year...

If you feel like there's an area in your life where NOTHING seems to be working, regardless of intent and effort...

If you feel like 2022 has awakened old traumas you thought you'd worked through or that you're spiraling into others you didn't know existed...

You're in a massive Shadow portal designed to burn down all false illusions to reveal your true capacity and grounded, sovereign agency.
Coming up for air from my own Shadow portal during Scorpio eclipse season, I thought I'd drop a special episode on unshaming and untaming your Shadow as part of your authentic expression in your online visibility and relationships.

In the episode I address:

1. What the Shadow (or Unconscious) is;

2. What's inside the Shadow;

3. How it's formed (using a intimacy/attachment lens);

4. How it relates to sexuality, pleasure, and authentic expression;

5. Why movement is important to unveiling deeper aspects of Shadow; and 

6. How to work through it using 4 basic principles. 

Get MAGNETIC AF in your expression in love and business.