Business as a Magical Practice

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08/05/20 • 6 min

Hey everyone! Welcome to business as a magical practice. This is our very first episode together so I wanted to set some expectations and share a little bit about me.

My name is Sam Garcia & I run Dirty Alchemy Digital Marketing - www.thedirtyalchemy.com - a digital marketing agency for magical businesses... And I’m also co-founder of Living Earth Systems - www.livingearthsystems.com - a regenerative agriculture design & education firm on the North Shore of Maui.

That being said... I live on a 170 regenerative agroforestry project on Maui so you may hear roosters crowing every few minutes, heavy wind, and all sorts of fun things that happen to be a part of off-grid living.

So if you’re here, you are most likely a magical person who owns a magical business. You’re spiritually oriented but still grounded in the material plane. You’re not just sitting on a meditation cushion 24/7 Thinking that you can chant your way to success. But you also know that your magical practices, your spiritual practices make a very real impact on your business and your life.

At Dirty Alchemy we work with multiple 6 And seven-figure online businesses solely in the spiritual and occult space and I’ve seen time and again the “miracles" and totally unexpected success that come from fusing business with the invisible cords that are uniting us all.

And as business owners we hold the power. Our work to integrate our conscious and unconscious, to heal ourselves, to clear karmic patterns and decide on better beliefs, all of this impacts our business. But you already know that.

So on this podcast will be exploring how our magical practices impact our business, but also how our business and work in the world impact our soul evolution and spiritual growth. Business in and of itself as a magical practice.

Most spiritual business owners know their spiritual practice impacts their business. That’s why you have your morning routine and meditation practice and you listen to the podcasts and read the books. But business has been, in my experience, more profound in my growth than any 40 day kriya or soul re integration session.

It’s in the extreme discomfort of sales and putting myself out there and doing all the things in not that much time that has shown me magic and torn me apart to emerge as a more powerful version of myself.

And as a digital marketer I can’t deny the mirroring of spells and copywriting. When you’ve put your full self into something, and vulnerable emotions in your sales funnel, when you’ve publicly revealed yourself for all to see and judge and have thoughts about... That’s when you step into the fire. That’s when your spiritual practice is truly birthed into the world.

Business in our modern world is so different than it once was. You really can’t go anywhere without being marketed to, by being influenced, and as our businesses become more of an outpouring of ourselves, the money we make becomes a very different thing... it means something totally different.

And we’ll be diving into all of this over time.

And going back a little further -- I got into marketing a decade ago with the intention of learning how to do it all for myself for some unknown future business that I would own. But on the way it became my business. I found a deep deep love for it. Perhaps the stars align that my mercury dominant astrology chart pulled me to unquestionably mercurial vocation -- Internet marketing.

But what I believe from my core is that good tools need to be in the hands of people doing good work. The money, the business strategy, the success, the recognition, the platform. All of this needs to be given to you. Taken by you. That’s so what drives me. Good people doing good work for The good of all. And being wildly compensated in the process. Sound good?

I’m so excited to start this conversation with you. I have some really fun guests lined up and lessons planned so that every week we are taking strides forward towards our vision, our desires, and the desires we don’t even have the courage to have yet.

So I’ll leave you with that.

Remember to subscribe to this podcast to get notified about new episodes every week. And share with anyone else that is opening up to using business as a magical practice.

And I’d love to talk with you directly so head over to Instagram - I’m @thedirtyalchemy for daily tips & behind the scenes.

Aloha.

Music: Gaena by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to business as a magical practice. This is our very first episode together so I wanted to set some expectations and share a little bit about me.

And we’ll be diving into all of this over time.

So I’ll leave you with that.

Remember to subscribe to this podcast to get notified about new episodes every week. And share with anyone else that is opening up to using business as a magical practice.

And I’d love to talk with you directly so head over to Instagram - I’m @thedirtyalchemy for daily tips & behind the scenes.

Aloha.

Music: Gaena by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

💡 Ready to take your business to the next level?

Explore our library of trainings and resources to fuel your growth, creativity, and success. From launch strategies to regenerative business practices, find everything you need at

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Decision-making & Keeping your word: An advanced magical practice

Today we’re talking about decision-making as an advanced magical practice.

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Okay, maybe making decisions isn’t technically “advanced,” but for today I’m saying it’s advanced since so few people do keep their word... Especially in the spiritual space with all our higher chakra-focused un-grounded hobbies.

I see all over the internet the inability to make decisions and the inability to follow through.

Which is ironic because the sacredness of the word is reflected in so many esoteric traditions. It may even be why affirmations aren’t working for you...

Because, after you’ve made and broken enough promises, your word is meaningless at this point.

To make a decision to stick to your word is a highly spiritual practice but you rarely see it advocated for in this day and age.

Distractions are everywhere. Options are everywhere. So to make a decision and not stick to it is so easy. To change your mind is so easy. But imagine the energy behind it...

So, I’m going to tell a personal story about the magic of Focus.

I would say that one of the most magically powerful times in my life was when I was in high school. I was so hyper-focused on getting into a specific college that my focus was unwavering. I made alllllll my decisions based around this one goal. All of my energy was going into it.

While friends partied I didn’t because I knew it would jeopardize getting into college if I was caught drinking underage. I didn’t experiment. I chose hobbies that aligned me with becoming a more attractive college candidate.

A few years later, after I had gotten in and started attending said college, my magical juju seemed to have dissipated.

At this point, as a third year student, realizing that there are so many options available for my future... I wasn’t prepared for life after my ultimate goal was achieved. I had no idea what to do. I didn't know what direction I should go in.

I was good at so many things, but my power of Focus was diluted through a lack of vision and decision-making.

If you are someone who has a hard time making decisions, it’s time to think really hard on this. And it’s probably time to quit the habit of indecision...

Because it’s just a habit to not make decisions quickly and not keep them after you make them.

When you make decisions and then follow through with them, you’re strengthening your will and strengthening your word.

In the Hawaiian esoteric tradition called Huna, the Kapuna who specialized in “sorcery” would be so powerful with their word that their word was law. They said it and it was so.

You see this in Western Hermetic traditions as well, so many people say “And so it is” at the end of rituals.

You say it and it is so. It’s the marking of a powerful word.

More than just decision-making, this practice is about committing to your word. In doing so, you give your words power.

In my Western upbringing, even in an agnostic home, I knew the story of Genesis. Most of us do. “And God said let there be light, and there was light.” It was his word that commanded the result. Through speaking it, it became so.

We see this even in modern day. We call how words are written out “spelling” — reverberating the wisdom that our words cast spells.

Toltec wisdom teaches teach us that our words hold immense power, to“be impeccable with your word.”

In the sacred Vedic text Satapatha Brahmana, the creation of the world was said to be:

“In the beginning was God with power through speech. God said, ‘May I be many ... May I be propagated. And by his will expressed through subtle speech, he united himself with that speech and became pregnant.”

You see it again in Kundalini Yoga, where Yogi Bhajan spoke extensively on this, saying, “When you speak, it should be as if Infinity is speaking.”

And I have a strong feeling that if I kept searching we would keep finding echoes of this same idea.

For myself, I was turned off to the power of words through its oversimplification in Law of Attraction and New Age teachings.

You hear how affirmations are going to change your life from every Guru. You try it on for a few weeks (or years) and you know something is missing. That sour taste hopefully won’t spoil the deeper truth and power of the message. That the action of keeping your word is powerful and... b...