EP63: BLM Series: Now What? Aissa Hillebrand and Racial Healing

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06/12/20 • 52 min

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Host Allison Hare talks to Aissa Hillebrand, Entrepreneur, and Transformational Business Coach. Aissa Hillebrand talks about how she has been affected by the murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter as a woman born to an African American father from Trinidad and a Puerto Rican mother. Aissa Hillebrand also discusses the lack of real talking in society about race, what it means to belong and have community, and what it takes to arrive at genuine authenticity.

Episode Highlights:

Allison Hare introduces Aissa Hillebrand.
How did Aissa Hillebrand feel during George Floyd’s murder and the response to it?
Did she feel supported during the ‘Blackout Tuesday’ social media screens?
What was it like in terms of race growing up black and Puerto Rico?
Is it an unconscious bias when white people criticize riots?
What is the next step for us all to create change?
How can the conversation about race reach those from homogenous communities that aren’t diverse at all?
Aissa Hillebrand shares how she explains race to her son who has vitiligo on his arm.
Does she feel like she has to go out of her way to prove her value in society to others?
Eventually, you will have to be yourself, not just fit in.
Let’s get back to actually talking.
There is an opportunity to heal.
Race is coming up on a global scale and the time is up. Change is happening.
Social work is spiritual work, not political.
Get centered with who you are as a person.
Sign up for Aissa Hillebrand’s Healing Talks About Hope and Race: aissahillebrand.com

3 Key Points

Accept yourself for who you are instead of seeking external validation from others.
We have to have real face-to-face conversations about racial inequality.
Unfortunately, we are often treated based on how people perceive us based on their personal bias towards how we look.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Everybody really has to do their own work in this whole process. But, we need to be able to know that advocacy and social justice is a spiritual practice and we need to work on that. The time has come.” –Aissa Hillebrand
“I became an advocate. I think for the young child within me. You know? Saying it is ok. You are good enough. Really, the acceptance needs to come from within you. What is it that you’re doing to accept yourself?” –Aissa Hillebrand
(Racial Inequality) “For me, the most important thing is to continue having the conversation.” –Aissa Hillebrand

Resources Mentioned:

Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.
Aissa Hillebrand social media: Linkedin Twitter
Aissa Hillebrand website: aissahillebrand.com

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Episode Highlights:

Allison Hare introduces Aissa Hillebrand.
How did Aissa Hillebrand feel during George Floyd’s murder and the response to it?
Did she feel supported during the ‘Blackout Tuesday’ social media screens?
What was it like in terms of race growing up black and Puerto Rico?
Is it an unconscious bias when white people criticize riots?
What is the next step for us all to create change?
How can the conversation about race reach those from homogenous communities that aren’t diverse at all?
Aissa Hillebrand shares how she explains race to her son who has vitiligo on his arm.
Does she feel like she has to go out of her way to prove her value in society to others?
Eventually, you will have to be yourself, not just fit in.
Let’s get back to actually talking.
There is an opportunity to heal.
Race is coming up on a global scale and the time is up. Change is happening.
Social work is spiritual work, not political.
Get centered with who you are as a person.
Sign up for Aissa Hillebrand’s Healing Talks About Hope and Race: aissahillebrand.com

3 Key Points

Accept yourself for who you are instead of seeking external validation from others.
We have to have real face-to-face conversations about racial inequality.
Unfortunately, we are often treated based on how people perceive us based on their personal bias towards how we look.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Everybody really has to do their own work in this whole process. But, we need to be able to know that advocacy and social justice is a spiritual practice and we need to work on that. The time has come.” –Aissa Hillebrand
“I became an advocate. I think for the young child within me. You know? Saying it is ok. You are good enough. Really, the acceptance needs to come from within you. What is it that you’re doing to accept yourself?” –Aissa Hillebrand
(Racial Inequality) “For me, the most important thing is to continue having the conversation.” –Aissa Hillebrand

Resources Mentioned:

Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.
Aissa Hillebrand social media: Linkedin Twitter
Aissa Hillebrand website: aissahillebrand.com

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EP62: Let's Get Metaphysical: Kelley Knight of Modern Mystic

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How often do you consider metaphysical explanations when the world seems upside down?

In this time, when the world seems to be spinning off its axis and all the life maps have mysteriously been thrown out, I thought it was a good time to revisit this conversation with Kelley Knight, the magnetic CEO and founder of wildly successful Modern Mystic Shop.

Host Allison Hare talks to Kelley Knight, CEO, Founder, and Owner of Modern Mystic Shop, a female-founded resource for intentionally made, small-batch metaphysical goods and services in Atlanta, Georgia. Kelley Knight talks about what brought her into embracing her spiritual journey, integrating her spiritual life and her business life, ways to elevate as a society, and what it means that we are now entering into the Aquarian Age.

Episode Highlights:

Allison Hare introduces Kelley Knight.
Kelley Knight explains who she is and how she got where she is today.
How did her marketing ideas come to her?
How did you start Modern Mystic?
Kelley talks about entering the Aquarian Age.
Allison Hare talks about a highly successful reading she had with Kelley Knight.
Kelley discusses normalizing spirituality and balancing that with business.
Who does her dad represent in her psyche?
What does it take to be open to a spiritual transition?
Many millennials are going to spiritual readers as opposed to therapists.
How has her business changed and grown?
How does she remain generous with her time and productive at the same time?
What does the world need right now?
What are her current goals?
Kelley Knight talks about how her mind works with making connections and her book “Spells for the Modern Mystic”: A Ritual Guidebook and Spell-Casting Kit.
What is next for her and how can people reach out for her services?
Kelley discusses how the impact and expansion have been for Modern Mystic.

3 Key Points

First healing and then honing are the steps that led Kelley Knight to strengthening her intuition abilities.
Normalizing spirituality takes discernment, self-regulation, and analyzing the ways we have associated spirituality with religion in the past.
Kelley’s big spiritual awakening happened in 2012 when she began seeing dead people and the Aquarian Age began.

Tweetable Quotes:

“I believe that the best way that I can be impactful is to fill a space, to scan the horizon and see where there is a need that my gifts and talents align with and fill that need, as opposed to creating something and making people come to you.” –Kelley Knight
“I think that’s why I’m a good tarot reader is because I can see all of the cards and all of the pieces laid out and then it clicks in very quickly how they all work together, and that is how my mind is working with marketing too.” –Kelley Knight
“Everyone has their own Spidey sense or super sense, right? So, the more that we normalize it and we make it not special, the more that people are going to use it, and the more that we can use it to work together and be together.” –Kelley Knight

Resources Mentioned:

Text me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison’s Linktree.
Kelley Knight Social Media: Linkedin
Modern Mystic: modernmystictarot.com
Modern Mystic: Instagram
Book: Spells for the Modern Mystic: A Ritual Guidebook and Spell-Casting Kit by Kelley Knight

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EP64: Hormones, Health, and Body Dysmorphia with Expert, Kim Schaper

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Host Allison Hare talks to Kim Schaper, Metabolic and Hormone-Reset Expert, Personal Trainer, and Nutrition and Wellness Coach. Kim Schaper shares her personal journey from anorexic to obese and back to physically fit, and how her extensive research and experience have made her a fitness influencer, and advice on how to better balance your mind and body.

Episode Highlights:

Allison Hare introduces Kim Schaper.
How does Kim Schaper remain both gracious and authentic?
How did she move from offline personal training to online?
Where did her drive come from?
Kim Schaper shares her origin story of going from anorexic to obese and back to healthy.
How does she get past all of the fakeness online and remain so authentic?
How does she personalize training?
Kim Schaper talks about why blood work is important and a proper medical doctor.
When working out, can you target specific body parts?
Do calories matter?
You have to have both cardio and weight training.
Go longer periods of time for your food to digest.
Does Kim worry about her weight wavering back again?
What does she know that she wishes people knew?
What does success look like to Kim and what is next?
What services does Kim Schaper currently offer?
Can you isolate body parts?
Do calories really matter?
Eating carbs after a workout or certain times?
Cardio or weight training?
Changing your workouts in your 40’s
PCOS?
Different diet trends?

3 Key Points

Kim Schaper is the same person online that she is offline.
She won’t work with any clients unless they get blood work done before to learn more about what is happening with their bodies.
You just target one body part. It is a full-body all-encompassing training.

Tweetable Quotes:

“My coping, anytime I was stressed, anytime I was sad, anytime I was happy it was always, ok, I have to exercise, or I have to undereat, or I have to do this. So, that was my coping skill. I had no source of how to manage my emotions.” –Kim Schaper
“Whatever happens in this, I’m going to stay true to who I am and stay true to my mission and what I stand for and what I have gone through. The most important piece in all of this is if I just say one thing that impacts another female, then I have done my job.” –Kim Schaper
“The first few years of the business, you are hustling hard and no one is listening. I remember there were days I would be online and I would get maybe one ‘like’ or it would just be crickets. I told myself, I’m going to keep going.” –Kim Schaper

Resources Mentioned:

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Kim Schaper social media: Instagram Twitter YouTube
Kim Schaper website: kimschaper.com

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