The She Leads Podcast: Real Conversations with Women Entrepreneurs

Alycia Diggs-Chavis, is an energy healer, intuitive coach, and CEO of BlueViolet Energy Healing. She shares her journey from studying international business at Harvard to working in corporate leadership for over 20 years. After she experienced the issues of becoming an empty nester, she transitioned to entrepreneurship and working with people in a completely different way. Through self-discovery and working with a coach, Alicia found her new calling in energy healing and became a certified master energy healer. Alycia helps leaders reduce stress and find their core through custom energy work in corporate environments.

Corporate wellness is very important because as human beings we don’t leave our lives behind, but take it with us to work as well. That is why self-awareness, growth, and achieving the state of flow are crucial for all leaders and their success.

Women especially need to step outside their roles built for everyone else but themselves. Women just don't build the same type of relationships with themselves as with other people. That is why it is crucial to look inward and figure out who we really are, make ourselves centered, and walk with confidence. A need to take time to reconnect with ourselves is huge and results in peace, confidence in decision-making, and getting back to balance is mirroring directly to the business success.

Only when you're learning yourself - you're loving yourself, you're investing in yourself. When you are showing yourself to others - you're investing in others. Let’s heal ourselves and the whole world.

Show notes:
🎤 Alycia spoke at She Leads Conference: Adrienne’s experience with Alycia’s energy healing. 01:56
👩🏾‍🎓 Harvard and Business undergrad school: major shift and going to Mali, Africa as a part of the Peace Corps. 06:00
👩🏾‍💼 Corporate job and consulting leaders in Nationwide insurance: moving to support the federal government in Health and Human Services. 08:14
🧘🏾‍♀️ Leader development and issues with empty nester: working with a coach and figuring out who she is. 10:26
🌸 Becoming a master energy healer in a couple of years: letting her intuition flourish. 13:29
☯️ The gap between corporate and spiritual worlds: the power of custom sessions for leaders and energy work in offices for reducing stress. 17:44
😇 Alycia’s story about her Native American ancestry: she has her guide with her all the time. 24:17
🤓 Types of organizations Alycia is working with: work and private life are so combined and tangled. 27:07
🎯 Leaders today realize that success comes from knowing yourself first: awareness, growth, and showing people how to do it. 28:56

Links:

Check Alycia’s website: bluevioletenergy.com

Social media handles: linkedin.com/in/alyciadiggschavis
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

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🌷Welcome Eva! 1:39
👩‍💼Helping women in communication strategy through thought leadership perspective.2:16
🚧 Usual obstacles in front of us: curse of knowledge. 4:56
🌊 Dealing with criticism: Thought leader should be bold and "make the waves" 5:43
☯️ Working on inner self is crucial for all. 7:39
📝 Eva helps entrepreneurs by formulating their ideas into words. 9:19
👠 Her journey from college to corporate and to entrepreneur. 12:32
🙃 Eva was avoiding asking for help from professionals, and that delayed her progress. 15:16
🤩 There's a team behind an entrepreneur, it is not all solely achievement of one person. 20:39
👎 People pleasing ruins everything. 23:37
🧠 "The hardest thing about entrepreneurship is my brain." 27:36
🗣️ Networking and mouth referrals can grow your business. 29:49
🤓 It is easy to connect with people and make friends even during pandemic. 33:20
✌️ Shifting energy of interaction with people is important, don't go into sales pitching mode. 36:41
🌞 Forget about the goal, concentrate on the process. 37:35
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👋 Welcome, Deb! 01:04
🙅 Getting out of the corporate mindset. 02:15
😏 Having the confidence to leave the corporate world. 05:24
😰 What are the greatest challenges for women when creating their own business? 07:23
💡 Does success in corporate = success in entrepreneurship? 10:00
☀ The importance of a healthy mindset. 13:41
⛔ Fear is a luxury. 19:08
✌ Building relationships and one-on-one connections. 21:59
💪 Entrepreneurship as the new feminist movement. 23:20
🎧 The benefit of podcasting: podcasts as tools to connect with your audience. 25:37
💫 The Launch Lab program. 30:18
💵 Pandemic and the market change. 33:32
🙋 Invest in yourself! 34:55
😓 Being open to the possibility of negative feedback. 38:09
💬 Connect with Deb and Life After Corporate https://thegreatdoover.com/ and https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/podcast/life-after-corporate/ 41:36
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🌷Janis Carmina - member of the 400+ member She Leads Media online community - shares her expertise. 1:15
🦄 Ex-police officer, the ECommerce Queen Bee, creates 6 figures brands on Amazon. 2:32
🌞 Welcome to the Sugar Coated podcast, Janis. 4:33
💰 Using Amazon FBA and retail arbitrage as a side gig for earning money. 6:43
🤩 Janis discovered Private Label companies and started selling products under her own brand 7:02
🚓The fateful night on patrol when her career was finished. 9:57
🤓 Keys to selling on Amazon and exactly how to develop your brand. 12:52
🧜‍♀️ Right is authenticity sells these days. 15:10
🦄 No Straw Challenge and how Janis created a brand of environmentally friendly straws. 17:39
⚠️ Smart go-to-market advice: do not launch a product without doing your research first! 19:51
😻 If you don’t have a company yet established, it’s better to start as a sole proprietor then incorporate after you have some success. 29:36
📚 Question answered about Self Publishing on Amazon. 31:44
🤗If you want to scale, you can’t do it by yourself. You must hire the right help! 34:36
😓 Working too much ‘in the business’ instead of ‘on the business’ can lead to frustration and burnout, so you must watch out for this. 47:42
🤑 Don’t be mistaken: There are many people who have money and time to purchase products and support the economy in these pandemic times. 55:26
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Connect with Janis:
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🥳Celebrating a 25th wedding anniversary. 1:20

👀Every relationship goes through peaks and valleys. 2:12

💖My husband is my best friend. 5:31

✨ What makes for a great relationship? 6:14

🔔 Commitment is the single most important element for long relationships. 8:04

🫂It is easier to bond with people when meeting face to face like at the She Leads Conferences. 11:40

🙃Commitment: more than a word, more than a feeling, and more than simply dedication.18:21

🥗Lunchtime can be a starting point to form relationships with colleagues you work with. 23:10

💌Send your thoughts about relationships and commitment to Adrienne at [email protected] 31:26

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