Introduction
GLORIA GRACE RAND: Namaste.
Imagine owning a business that doesn’t just provide income, but actually honors your divine design. A business where you aren’t sacrificing your life or your soul for that matter, to scale your impact.
When I work with clients, we stop looking at business, at your business as a series of tasks to accomplish, and instead we look at it as an energetic expression of you.
And that’s what I’m going to talk about today. I want to talk about how, how to do this, how to really create a business that really honors who you are at an energetic level. Because it’s so easy to start a business, you know, for all the right reasons. And especially when we get to be over 40, over 50, over 60, like I am, life starts happening and you know, you go through things like becoming an empty nester or you start losing people that you love, or maybe your relationship changes and maybe the business that you originally started doesn’t seem to fit your life anymore. Or maybe, maybe you outgrow the business.
Why Your Business Might Stop Fulfilling You
That happens sometimes too. Again, because it’s not, it’s not fulfilling you, even though it could be very, very successful, but you’re just not feeling that passion for it anymore. And, and, and that’s normal. I mean, that happens with, with relationships and certainly a business is a relationship, but with personal relationships. I know for me, I was not happy in my marriage for a while and I mean, I had been for a very long time because we were married over 30 years and.
But it came to a point where as I was, my kid, the kids were getting older, you know, moving on and going off to college, starting their own lives. And I was doing work on myself personally, doing a lot of inner work. I had started a meditation practice at the same time. I started my business actually in 2009 and, and doing that inner work, I started really reflecting on is my marriage really fulfilling me the way it did when I first got involved with this lovely gentleman who, who I still love. I just don’t like living with him.
And that happens with our business too. And I know for me, when I was doing copywriting and I very happy with doing that type of work, I was, you know, I enjoyed writing content for different types of businesses and it, and it was lovely. And then I lost my older sister. And in that, in that journey of, of watching her succumb to the cancer and then getting this idea that I needed to write a book about love, it was like the copywriting wasn’t fulfilling me anymore and I had to take a really hard look at where I was in my business and what I wanted from my business. So that’s what I invite you to think about today as, as.
Introducing the L.O.V.E. Method for Your Business
As I talk about this a little bit more and my. And I go through. And I know I’ve talked about when I call the LOVE method L, O, V E. Love is an acronym because it’s, it’s what has helped me and my clients to really help. Help you to.
Well, let me go through it actually, before I even go there. Let me just, Let me just, let me go through each letter of the acronym again and ex. And kind of go through how that, how it helps you to be able to gain clarity about where you are right now in your business and maybe even in your life as well, but certainly in your, in your business and, and helping you. So, so the L, the L in love stands for let go and let God. And that really is about letting go of limiting beliefs that, let’s say that you’re not worthy to be successful or limiting beliefs about.
L — Let Go and Let God
You. You’re not. You don’t have what it takes. You know, you know, sometimes we get into these imposter syndro or letting go of fear that is keeping you stuck. Because it can be sometimes that when you are going through a process where suddenly now you’re not sure that the life or the business you have is really where you want to be five years from now, ten years from now.
And at the same time, even though you may feel that way, making a change can be scary. And oftentimes we stick with the status quo to avoid making that change. So that’s where letting go and putting your faith and trust in God, Source, universe, your higher self, however you refer to that, turning it over, turning over any fears, turning over limiting beliefs, turning over it really still stems from fear. Turning that over and just saying, you know what? I’m going to let it go, I’m going to put it in your hands and I’m going to trust that the answers will come because, and I know I’ve written this down, all the answers you seek are right within you.
Oh, I know I wrote a song once and that was one of the lyrics of the song was that, yeah, the answers you seek are right inside of you. And it’s true, they really are. So trust in that. So that’s the L. The O is about opening your heart to receive, to. To re.
O — Open Your Heart to Receive
To receive that inner guidance, for one thing, to open your heart, open your mind to that and, and then to be able to receive ideas, messages, clients, frankly, who are aligned with your mission. And then the V. The V is valuing your uniqueness as a midlife entrepreneur, valuing the wisdom and the experience that have brought you where you are now, and that can still take you where you want to go.
V — Value Your Uniqueness as a Midlife Entrepreneur
And sometimes it involves really taking a hard look and evaluating and say, okay, what is it I like to do? Oh, in fact, we. We actually talked about this last week with my guest, Eddie Matsumoto. She. She talked about this wonderful little Venn diagram for herself, where it was, you know, what am I good at?
What do I like to do? And what can I. How can I make money? You know, where does those things intersect, where it will actually allow me to make money? And she was able to find that sweet spot for her, and she actually has now paints these wonderful pictures where she takes famous masterpieces and replaces the subject with a sea otter.
So if you haven’t, if you’re listening to this, I encourage you to listen to that episode. But even better is watch it on YouTube because then you’re going to be able to see the wonderful pictures, at least a couple of them that are behind her, of these very, very adorable otters. And she actually sent me. She sent me the book. You know what?
I’m going to pause this for one quick second and I’m going to get the book, because what the heck. Yeah, she. She sent me the book after we recorded the interview. So this is what I’m talking about. It’s just so adorable.
I mean, look at. It’s. It’s. It’s. Is that not cute?
So I encourage you to go back in and, and watch it. Let me see. Oh, I can see. Okay, now this, I mean, really. Okay, come on.
So check out the book. I’ve. I’ve never done a shameless plug for one of my guests before. But you know what? This is a book that brings you joy.
And, and it might be a really good thing for you to do as you’re trying to figure out, what do I want to do with my life? What do I want to do with my business? Spend a few minutes just releasing and opening your heart to receive some joy. Because when we are. When you can be in a higher frame of mind, when you are not, when your vibration is high as opposed to low, when you’re maybe sad or angry or whatever, what have you, or in fear, when you are in joy, that just really gets the brain juiced up and you.
And you are able to come up with many more wonderful ideas. Okay, where we were talking, we were talking about valuing your uniqueness yes. Because that’s also going to help you to really, when you value what is unique about you, it helps you to be able to reposition perhaps your offers or your business in a way that is going to be more fulfilling for you.
E — Embrace Your Divinity
The last letter in love is E of course, which stands for embrace your divinity. And that is about really embracing yourself as a divine being and also embracing your business then as this divine extension of your higher self so that you can now lead your business from a place of soul sovereignty. And, and that all of that then gives you that confidence to, to act on it either way. So now you, you’re able to move from being this busy professional, this hard working entrepreneur to really being an iconic leader, someone who is, whose business is aligned with their soul.
From Busy Entrepreneur to Iconic Leader
And I’ve, I’ve observed so many women in this space, you know, high achieving service providers, second act creators who, who hit a wall and, and you know, I’ve talked about this already that it’s, you know, life happens and sometimes it just, it forces you to start re examining what do I want to do, do I want to pivot, do to. I want. And, and how can I do that? And, and sometimes you don’t know how. You just know that you’re stuck.
And that’s where it’s so great to be able to have someone else there who can help you to remove the blinders because oftentimes that’s what happens is we’ll, we have blinders on and we’re not able to see something that is oftentimes really obvious to someone else, you know, your close friend or a co worker or a coach. Of course. So one of the things that, one of the tools that I’ve been able to use that have, has helped me along the way and I know I’ve talked about it on the podcast before actually several different ones and I already mentioned it earlier is that having a, some sort of practice that helps you to look inward. And, and I absolutely meditation is, is my number one recommendation because it, oh, and I was hearing somebody talking about this the other day. What was it?
Meditation, Prayer, and the Practice of Being Still
I was, they were now maybe it was at the unity church. Yeah, I was at a unity church on Sunday. That’s right, that’s what it was. And, and the minister was talking about the difference between prayer and meditation and, and prayer is where you’re, you’re talking to God, source, universe, whatever. And meditation is when you get to listen and you get to be still and know.
I love that phrase, be still and know.
So when you are Quiet when you are meditating and you’re able to just. And I know sometimes it’s hard to quiet the brain, but it, you know, you do the best you can. You recenter yourself when, when you’re, you know, the monkey mind starts going after going on and you can just, you know, whether it is staring at a candle or whether it’s just focusing in on your breath, just keep, keep doing that. Because it’s amazing when you do that. That is when you are able to allow your higher self to speak to you.
The Voice That Changed My Life: How My Book Was Born
I mean, that’s how, that’s. That’s where my book came from is because I was. Had been meditating for, let’s see, seven years at that point. And so I would have this daily practice of being quiet. And one morning when I was meditating, a voice said, you need to write a book about love.
That voice totally changed my life because it led me to write a book, it led me to teach this, it led me to this doing this podcast, you know, especially the first iteration when it was called live love engagement and now design your life your way.
But if I hadn’t been quiet, if I hadn’t had that practice of being quiet and allowing and being open again, see opening your heart to receive those messages, I, I wouldn’t be here today. I. And I don’t know what I would be doing. I mean, I might still be copyrighting, but maybe not. I might, I don’t know.
But I’m very grateful that I heard that nudge and that I acted on it. And that’s the other thing too, I should mention is it’s important to open your heart to receive, to be open to messages. And then you do need to act on them, even if it’s just a little baby step. I mean, for me, I didn’t sit down and write the book that day. No, instead what I did is I sat down on my computer and said, okay, if I were to write a book about love, what would it be?
Trusting Divine Timing
And then it came through that love was an acronym. So I had the acronym that first day. But I didn’t start writing that book for. Well, I think it was a whole nother year at least before I started because this was going on as my sister was really, really not doing well from her cancer. And then she passed two months later.
So of course I had to then go through a whole grieving process and. And so that happens. But it was still there. You know, the idea was there. It was just waiting for me to finally get to a point where I could start the process.
And that’s a good lesson I want to share with you too, is that again, sometimes it just requires you taking that first step and you don’t have to rush things. I firmly believe that everything happens in divine timing. I mean, for instance, again, it’s that because it took me so long to write the book, I. It wound up that I didn’t actually get it published until 2021, but it was perfect because I was able to publish it in February, which was my sister’s birthday. And in fact, my sister’s birthday was February 21st.
So I thought, you know what? This is perfect. This is perfect. I’m publishing the book in 2021. And, and it just.
Everything lined up perfectly for that. So trust that, that you don’t have to always. Things don’t have to happen quickly as long as you start, as long as you get. Take baby steps when you’re wanting to make a change that’s so important. And, and the other thing, of course, that I’ve talked about is journaling.
Live Light Language Session: Releasing What’s Stuck
I think journaling is a fantastic way also of you able to be able to kind of get what’s out and to help you to develop some clarity. And then my third technique that, that I have used a lot, which is really good for helping release stuck energy, things that are blocking you, and that is light language. So I want to share some light language with you right now as a way for you to start this process. So if you are someone right now who’s listening to this today, who is feeling stuck, who is feeling like they’re meant for something else to do, but they’re not quite sure what that is yet, let me help you to start, start releasing some of that so that you can start gaining some more clarity and. And about where to go, what to do, what that next step should be.
So if you’ve never experienced this, if you’re new to the podcast, for instance, if you’re new and you’ve like, what are you about light language? So I’ll just tell you briefly what it is. It’s a way of. That I have.
Not exactly learned, but it’s a way that I have had activated in me to be able to share a form of communication that is something that speaks to your soul, it speaks to your heart. It’s something that you may or may not be able to translate for yourself. I don’t necessarily translate it even for myself when I’m doing it, but it’s something that. It’s a language that what my guides told me is a language that we spoke before we came into these human bodies, and everyone sort of receives it in a different way. And there are many different dialects and lots of theories about where it comes from.
For me, I just like to say that it’s a language of love. Ultimately, that’s what it is. It’s a language of love. So if it is safe for you right now when you’re listening to this, for you to perhaps close your eyes for just for a couple minutes, we’re just going to do a short. A short session right now.
And what I always encourage my clients to do, myself to do when I’m doing it for myself, but I’m going to encourage you to do is to just set an intention for yourself that whatever comes through right now is going to be for your soul’s highest good and the highest good of all concerned. And I’m going to take a sip of water real quick before I start, okay? And I’m going to set that same intention for me and for you that what is going to come through, as I said, will be for your soul’s highest good and the highest good of all concerned.
So now.
Okay, I hope you sit with that for a moment. You know what? Let’s. Let’s just sit again for maybe take a breath. You have some water nearby?
Drink some water. I think I’m going to do that again, too, for myself.
Bringing It Together: Meditation, Journaling, and Community
So I mentioned earlier today that it, like I said, you know, doing things like meditation, listening to light, language, journaling, all of these things are really great for helping you to be able to release what’s stuck and help you in starting to gain some clarity. And I will tell you that also, it is sometimes that it’s really good to be able to get someone else’s opinion and someone who can see perhaps the. The. The blind spots that you aren’t seeing for yourself. It’s also wonderful to be with a group of people as well, who can serve and support you, because people who are maybe going through the same challenges you are and.
Introducing the Life on Purpose Accelerator
And you can commiserate or better yet, help each other, because there may be someone who has been where you are and now has come out the other side a little bit, but maybe they’re also having a different issue now, and so maybe you can help each other. So I have developed a program that I’ve talked about a little bit on the podcast already that is my intention to help you if you are someone who is going through some issues where you’re not quite sure whether you want to take this business and move it forward or you’re ready for something new and you need some clarity and you to help you to move forward. So I have created what I call the Life On Purpose accelerator. And it is a 30 day program on the love method that I talked about earlier today. And so during these 30 days we’re going to be helping you to let go of maybe micromanaging possibly some of the tasks that might be stifling your revenue growth or, or, or just letting go of some of the fear that is keeping you from taking that next step.
It’s going to help you to learn how to trust your intuition better so that you can make effective decisions like I said in your current business or maybe deciding to pivot and try something a little different. It’ll help you to really get more clarity about your unique experience so that you can use that to develop perhaps some new, new services maybe or, or help you certainly in marketing them more effectively and then to really just own your value as a midlife entrepreneur. So you can maybe you might be playing it small right now and maybe that is what some of the fear is coming in and to help you to really step into that. So I hope that you will consider this. And just to give you some of the nuts and bolts, what this is, is it involves four, we’re have four weekly group trainings and, and Q and A sessions on Zoom.
It’s going to be, you’re going to get 30 days of journal prompts for you to, through your email to help you to really start, you know, getting to know, getting to know yourself a little bit better. And, and each week it’s going to follow one pillar of the love method. So the first week is going to concentrate on where you need to let go and let God in your business. And, and then opening your heart to receive will be the second week and you’re gonna get also an opportunity to have some a group light language session, a longer one that I share on the podcast and even and then there’s some cool bonuses where you’ll get like a private session with me as well so you can go to Lopa L O P A Life on Purpose Accelerator. Ha L O P A L O P A CC I’ll have that in the show notes and you can get all the information about it.
And I, I invite you, if, if this is at all calling to you, I would love for you to join us because this is the first time I’m doing this program and so I really am looking for some amazing women entrepreneurs who want to help me create this and really be that first cohort that is going to help me to let me know what works and maybe what needs some tweaking so that the next time around I can make it even better. So I’m really looking for people who want to, you know, come play with me. Okay. And, and, and help me, help me make this better. And because it is the first time, you know, everything is live, we’re not going to be doing, you know, this isn’t one of those courses where you’re, you’re, you know, just listening to, you know, a recorded message.
No, we’re going to be working together. So again, those live sessions are going to be great because you can ask me questions and I will do my best to answer them for you. And if I don’t know the answer, I will go and find the answer for you. But this way you’re going to have an opportunity to really dig in and, and, and be able to get that clarity so that you can move forward in your life and your business. So again, I encourage you to go to L O P A P A cc if I could say it right, Lopa cc.
Why You Deserve More From Your Business
I couldn’t get dot com, so that’s why it’s dot cc and you can get all the information about it. And I would love to have you join us. So I just, I really think that you deserve, you deserve to have all of the wonderful, amazing gifts and joy and love and peace and prosperity that you could possibly want in your life. And, and your business should be a mechanism to provide that for you. And if it’s not doing that right now, if it’s not fulfilling you the way it used to, then it’s time to take a look at it and see.
Because maybe it just requires some fresh eyes and, and, and maybe it just requires you to just take a break for a little bit and just do some introspection because it may be that there was something staring you in the face this whole time that you just weren’t able to see, because sometimes we’re too close to it, you know, so when we can step back and open our heart to receive some inspiration and, and be in a container with other people who are going through the same thing, who can serve and support you, and you can serve and support them. Miracles happen. I, you know, the concept of a mastermind, I’ve love, I’ve always loved that. And, and my, my intention after this 30 days is to also be able to work with also some, a group of women on, on a longer basis, like four month basis. Because when I’ve been in longer masterminds like that, that’s where you really get to go deep and you can really develop bonds with the other people in the group.
And, and when you know, when two or more are gathered, that’s, you’ve got this amazing brain because it just, it just like 10x’s the brain power and you’re able to come up with amazing ideas that you wouldn’t necessarily. You might have been able to come up with it on your own, but it might have taken a lot longer. So when you’re with other people, things can just click really fast and, and that’s an amazing thing. So. Yeah.
Closing Thoughts: Design It Your Way
Okay, so, so there, there you have it. Today I, I encourage you to, and, and if you’re not going to join my accelerator, that’s okay too. But I hope today I’ve at least given you some tools and some ideas for you to, to start doing some of this work yourself. But again, I encourage you to be with other people. If not me, then hire yourself another coach or join another group because you can get there yourself, but when you’re with other people, you can really get there so much faster.
So yeah, okay, I think we’re gonna, we’re gonna end it for there today. And I just know that you have spent years designing a life and a business for others, I’m sure, but it’s time to design it your way. So I really look forward to doing this work for, with you. And until we meet again and until next time, I encourage you to go out there and just live boldly and on purpose.
