Your host, Devonee Thaxton, is joined by Spiritual Mentor, marketing expert, and Founder of Connect One Marketing, Timi Orosz. Her journey began after gaining experience in customer service and consulting. From working in hospitality and banking in the UK, she learned how to forecast, analyze, and understand trends as a resource planning analyst. She defines her mission as uniting change makers, light workers, energy healers, and purpose driven souls to make a bigger impact and to arm the spiritual community with business and marketing knowledge. In this episode, Timi talks about how she found her calling for marketing after experiencing a need for change and embarking on a journey of spiritual development. 

To learn more about Timi, you can visit her website at https://connectonemarketing.com/

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Welcome to savvy, booked and blessed here.

Joining us in this episode is spiritual business mentor, marketing

expert, and founder of connect.

One marketing Timmy PI's journey began after gaining experience in

customer service and consulting.

From working in hospitality and banking in the UK, she learned how

to forecast, analyze, and understand trends as a resource planning

analyst, after experiencing a need for creative change and embarking on

a journey of spiritual development.

Timmy found her calling for marketing.

She defines her mission as uniting change makers, light workers, energy, healers,

and purpose driven soul to make a bigger impact and to arm the spiritual community

with business and marketing knowledge.

Hi Timmy.

Welcome.

Hey, thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited to have a chat with you and loving the podcast that I was

listening to the previous episode as well.

Thank you so inspired.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tim.

Tell us again where you're from.

Because you were telling me before and I'm jealous yeah, right now I'm

located in Spain in the Canary island.

So it's a really awesome, amazing island.

And it's just a little bit west of of Africa.

So the weather is amazing or year round, never too hot.

Never too.

So I literally cannot complain Palm trees, beaches, all the

fun stuff that comes with it.

I feel like that's just like an entrepreneur's dream that we all

just strive to, the work anywhere be anywhere, which is, I think why

a lot of us, or at least for me did.

This , that was one of my drivers as well, a few years ago, why I wanted

to be always location independent.

So I also lived in S Lanka for a little bit.

I lived in Malta, which is another island, the UK Barcelona,

and who knows where I go next.

Maybe we have another check in a couple of years and I'd be completely all over

the place, or something you never know.

that's amazing.

I love that.

Tell us a little bit more about what you do and who you.

Yeah.

So basically, as you insured me already, I'm a spiritual businessman.

So when people ask me what is even bad what do you do?

how does your day look like?

So basically I work with people who are purpose driven in a nutshell.

So anyone who wants to be making a positive difference in the

world, I help them to either start or grow their businesses.

So people who are either on their spiritual development journey or

they're on their self awareness journey, they tend to be a little bit confused

when it comes to building businesses.

So they don't always get the foundational marketing and business knowledge.

So that's when I come in and look at what is it that.

Should be doing in a more efficient or more optimized way, so they can go out

there and make a bigger, positive impact.

So that's what personally drives me.

I think that we are here on this planet for such a short time, might

as well make the most of it and leave something behind that is going to

make or work a little bit better.

Maybe it is a cliche as it is, but I think if we have the power to

do that, we definitely should at least try and see what comes out.

Yeah, absolutely.

On your journey of marketing, what led you to one starting your own business and then

nicheing down to this group of people.

Yeah.

I always wanted to have my own business.

I remember when I was a kid, I was like five or six year, six years old.

I kept telling my parents that when I'm going to have my own business or when

I'm going to live here and do that.

So it's, it was always in the back of my mind.

I think it comes down to your character as well, but I always had.

You know that little self doubt and I felt I'm not ready.

I dunno how to do it.

I had all of these misconceptions in my mind that you need to have, I don't know,

like a large amount of investment to start a business, or you need to have X amount

of years of experience or qualifications.

All these social conditioning that were holding me back.

So when I finally took that leap forward that it was because I had

such a, an internal frustration in me.

I knew I had gained amazing experiences, working across many industries

and countries and divisions I get really good skill over the years.

It just wasn't fulfilling me anymore just to take on another C-suite

job or just to go into corporate again and money was not driving me.

I knew that something was missing and I felt really frustrated.

I felt even angry a little bit.

I felt I was wasting my potential in a way.

I see this happening actually quite a lot.

Within a, within this sector specifically.

So I quit my job.

My latest job that I quit was I was a sales and marketing director when I lived

in Barcelona and I didn't have a plan B.

I said now, or never, I need to figure out what I want to do with my life.

That allows me to be completely myself, to remain completely authentic

and do something that I truly love.

And I really enjoy.

And I wanted to love Mondays again, in a nutshell, I didn't want to

look forward to Friday afternoon.

I didn't want to live my life because the weekend is coming.

I wanted to just do something that really comes from deep

from my heart and from my soul.

And it just came to me initially.

It was, I quit my job.

I had Nolane I was sitting on my balcony and one day.

It just happened.

I realized that I can combine my love for personal and spiritual

development and building businesses and marketing in a way that I'm bringing

my two parts together in a way.

Yeah.

So for me, that was the biggest catalyst frustration, biggest that internal

frustration that I just didn't know.

What I'm doing with my business life and my, in my career.

Sure.

I'm not sure if you can relate to that as well.

Or have you seen that happening?

Yeah, absolutely.

I was writing down something that you said about, and I can so relate to this.

When I started my business and marketing journey and strategic business planning is

just feeling angry in my previous job, not able to grow or using my skill set and.

No, sometimes I, not to brag or anything, but I think sometimes

it's I'm really good at what I do.

I'm very smart and I can do a lot of things.

And why aren't you guys, seeing it, and so I do.

Feel that deep in my bones and anger and frustration of not being able to work

in your magic and then what do you do?

It's you're being like held back, isn't it?

Yeah.

that you have all this potential and you are ambitious and you are able to

learn as well and you're open minded, but then when you're not in the right

environment or you don't have the right leaders or mentors, or you're surrounding

yourself with the right people.

You're just basically wasting your potential.

And it doesn't just mean at work specifically, but it'll trickle into the

rest of your life as well in other areas.

Yeah.

If you're not happy at your work, you're going to go home and be frustrated at

your partner for not doing the dishes or something silly, and that had

nothing to do with him is just, you are not having the right attitude and

the mindset because you're not happy at your job or your career in a way.

That's my view, because I always say that we spend so much time working.

We probably spend about at least a third of our life working, why as

well, we should enjoy that time.

That's what I think.

And it is very difficult for people to figure out how to do that.

And it's not something that happens overnight usually, but

when it does happen, it's just such a liberating feeling.

You, you really feel like finally, I'm doing what I'm meant to be doing.

And I really wish that everyone could find this one way or around or another.

But what really helped me as well is removing myself from the known environment

and the familiar environment and just opening my mind and my life to new

experiences and just to figure out.

What is it that I want to be dealing and yeah, that usually helps removing

yourself from the known and the familiar usually helps you figure

out where is the new direction.

Yeah, absolutely.

So when you got to this place of I cannot do it anymore, what were take us back

to like really, what were the steps?

Was there like an overlap?

At least for me, there was like a good six month overlap between like my

regular job and this tell us a little bit more about how you got started.

I did that first.

So the first time I tried to start something on my own.

I miserably failed as many people would do.

Yeah I did that back in 2015, I believe, or 2014, something around that.

And I decided I actually took on a coach at the time.

I took on a career coach and he helped me figure out that I could be

doing this and become a consultant or a freelancer related to marketing.

The first attempt.

So I became a freelancer and within three or four months, I took a role

as well, which was great because it led me to some amazing things,

but I didn't have that courage.

I didn't have that level of confidence at the time.

Fast forward to a few years, that was early.

Find it 20 just before I were turned upside down.

I thought it's a great time to start a business.

Why not?

And that's when I felt that okay now or never.

So it.

It was a bit of a, like an ultimatum to myself.

I had to be a little bit firmer to myself.

I said, either I just give it a go and just be bit half about it.

And then we will see what happens again.

And maybe I have to repeat the same process in a few years time,

or I'm really going to figure out what is it that I want to be doing.

So the steps that I took.

I pulled the rug under my feet.

That was that one I said, wow, I need to cut the safety net, which between

my case was the job that I had, the director job, it was a great job.

It was a great team, great company.

People were making an impact, but I just felt it wasn't my heart.

Wasn't in it fully.

So I said, I cannot be.

Comfortable in that situation that I know I'm still gonna have some

income coming in and I can do things.

And I have, my days filled up with activities.

I had to remove that for me, that was a distraction.

And to even recognize that it was distracting me from really figuring out

how to step forward, because that was my biggest question, mark what do I do?

And how do I do.

I knew that I had to remove that it was scary as hell, not knowing what's

going to happen next, but I just knew that I have to have confidence in

myself and I have to believe in myself to know that something will work out.

If I don't have a plan B, I'm going to come up with the solution

and that's exactly what happened.

So then what I did next, when I already stopped working it, it literally took

me about a month, not even there.

So I stopped working there at the beginning of January.

And by the end of January, early February, I launched my business.

So it was literally a matter of few weeks and I spent time on doing what

I loved doing that was the key to it.

I figured out what are the things that I loved?

I loved socializing.

I was going out networking with other kick as female entrepreneurs and

just being in that environment, they really motivated me as well to see the

examples to hear their struggles and their challenges and just having those

conversations really helped me to.

To take that step forward.

So that was one of the actions I took to surround myself with people that either

were in my shoes before, so they can relate to what I was going through, or we

were already in the same boat so we could support and inspire each other that I

think having that support system was huge.

And having that inspiration is just massive.

The listeners of this podcast, probably.

That's why they're listening as well, because I they're going

through something similar.

So yeah, if you're doing the right thing, if you're listening,

so please keep listening.

yes, please keep listening.

No, it's so true.

I, having a mentor was one of the, if not the best decision I did as well, as soon

as I was like, all right, I'm gonna do the damn thing and getting me a mentor.

Very.

On, even before I started my business, I think completely I

couldn't imagine them starting it.

it's speeds things up for you.

It definitely speeds things up for you.

So even though and I really believe in the power of mentoring and coaching as well,

because I went through it so many times at so many different phases of my life.

So when I first had my coach, as I said back in 2015, it, he helped me figure.

The initial direction.

I didn't follow through completely at a time.

It's down to me, not to the coach, but then I took another coaching

program back in 2021 when I already had my business, because I knew

that I need to start growing it.

I need to start looking at for new opportunities.

So it gave me something completely different.

Same comes with finding your mentor, finding your support

system, finding people that you look up to and asking questions.

That what helped me throughout the years, I asked so many questions.

I probably annoyed a lot of people in my career by constantly asking questions,

but it's such a great way to accelerate that, that growth and avoid making the

same mistakes that other people made.

But even if you make mistakes, I think that's fine meant to

be doing those, these things.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It.

Yeah, it really helps.

So going back to that scene on my balcony and back in Barcelona, early

20, 20, but I took these steps already.

I had the support system.

I literally grabbed my notebook.

I'm very old school.

I write with pen and paper and I started writing down what are the

things that I enjoy doing and how can I make money out of these things?

And that was literally it figuring it out what am I naturally good at?

What are the things that I love passionately love love doing.

Yeah.

Can I make any sort of revenue, can I build a business out of any of these?

And this is how it all made sense, and this is how it all clicked for me.

Yeah.

And the rest is just tweaking and changing and bettering it.

And I'm sure I'm gonna change my website a hundred more times for the next 10

years, but , it's just part of the game.

Just get started.

That's the key message.

Yeah, just getting started.

Absolutely.

So what made you, so after, creating that lift, when did you decide that spiritual

workers and, world changers were the niche that you wanted to work with?

Yeah, so my.

Core value was that I wanted to be completely myself and

that what was driving me.

So it will heavily depend if someone wants listening and

wants to start their business.

First of all, figure out why do you want to start the business?

Why do you want to, or start a new career?

But ideally if you are an entrepreneur you want to be running your own game.

So figure out the intention behind it.

Why is it important to you?

For me personally, my intention behind it was, I didn't want to portray to

be someone I'm not I got so sick of the playing the games in the boardroom

and trying to be aggressive with my sales or trying to be sure very mean

sometimes when I was negotiating that wasn't me, I'm a very nurturing and

caring character, but when I was.

In my career in my previous roles, I had to be really tough and I had to be

really masculine and it just wasn't me.

I lost myself throughout that process.

So that's the core point that was driving me personally.

I wanted to become me in everything I do, and I'm not going to be working

with other people just because they have a bigger wallet or it will look

better on my website or on my resume.

And that's exactly why I chose the spiritual community.

As I mentioned, I'm a big fan of personal development and spiritual development.

And I wanted to work with clients who I would imagine them as they

could also become my friends.

And that was my way of thinking.

I started asking myself what kind of people I would want to hang out with,

what kind of people I enjoy having meaningful, deep conversations with.

And it was these kind of people that like, you could talk about mindset and

consciousness and energy and the universe.

And I could talk about this stuff for hours.

And I.

Might as well.

I talk about these people at work and yeah.

In between, talk about strategies and optimizing their businesses.

We can have a nice chat.

Changing your mindset.

So that was my initial starting point.

And when I came to this conclusion, I did a proper market research as well.

So I didn't just bend after this initial thought, my marketing brain kicked in.

And I realized that was such a thing as a spiritual industry,

until that point I had no idea.

I thought I came up with this cool concept.

I'm like, great.

I'm.

Turns out, no, this already exists.

So anyway, it's made my life a bit easier.

It was already there.

And then I looked at the trends and I could see that the demand is there.

So if you are starting a business, make sure that, the

intentions, why you are doing it.

Who do you want to be serving and the people that you want to be serving.

Would you wanna hang out with them?

Ask yourself that question.

If a customer calls you up because you mess something up.

Would you want to have a coffee with them?

Could you have a decent conversation with them?

If not, you're probably going off to the wrong audience and and they're

not going to resonate with you if they feel that you have nothing in

common and they cannot relate to you or you cannot relate to them.

Yeah.

So that.

That's the starting point, I think for anyone.

And then look at the actual statistics, the analysis and look at the real demand

and look out for gaps in the market.

In my case, it was obvious I was bringing marketing as my major

skillset and the sort of big picture view from my business background.

And I realized that these people that I wanted to.

They were severe lacking this kind of knowledge.

And it just made sense to me.

I said, I might as well, I can pass on my knowledge to people who are actually

driven to, to make or at a better place.

And it would make me feel fulfilled on a personal level, knowing that

the knowledge that I'm passing on.

He's going into the right hands as to speak and yeah.

Yeah.

And not just to fuel one of the big corporations who don't

care, anything about or word, but just going off the profit.

So comes down to personal preference.

I think you need to understand who you are and what's important for you and

then build a business on top of that.

Yeah, absolutely.

When you were talking about the.

Spiritual providers and maybe some gaps in knowledge that they have.

What are maybe some common trends that you have noticed?

Confusion?

Confusion is the big one.

Confusion is the big one because they tend to have an information overload

because there's so much information out there when you start Googling things.

If, for example, like how do I grow my business by the end

of it, you are dizzy because.

So much noise out there.

Yeah.

And everything is all these buzzwords and these fancy words.

And of course, people are going to get confused.

If someone who's never studied or worked in marketing or business development,

I'm not surprised at all that people get frustrated and extremely confused.

And that's the common theme that I'm seeing happening that they know

that they have to do something.

They become paralyzed, starting to do anything because the noise is just so loud

and they don't even know where to focus.

Lack of focus is another big one that I'm seeing that the spiritual

community specifically heavily relies on their intuition, which is amazing.

I do the same thing.

I have.

Cars behind me that I pull sometimes when I'm checking on of my strategies

is this really in line with me or not?

So you can use intuition in business perfectly well, and it's absolutely

fine, but you need to add a strategy behind it, just using just your gut

feeling is going to take you far.

Great is going to be amazing.

But if you want to be consciously scaling and growing and making a bigger

impact, you need to have some form of aligned strategy and not just follow the.

Growth hackers.

Yes.

And the so called expert is no, you need to do something that feels right for you.

Yeah.

And that's a common theme as well that they read something or

they see something that is the latest buzz or the latest trend.

They try it.

Or someone told them you have to be on Instagram 24 7 for example.

No, you don't , find what feels right for you and build a strategy that allows

you, that you can remain yourself.

So you're not going against your values, but at the same time, you are making

money for your business and you are serving your customers in a genuine way.

Yes.

These are big things and it happens a lot, unfortunately.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I, whew.

I can agree more and what we do is very similar in that way.

Yeah.

Of, of just also debunking all of the.

Bullshit that's out there.

yeah.

People just get lost.

And when you, I think, if you don't have a mentor, if you don't have a strategy

at least something loose, when you're, when you get started, , you will just

get washed away with all of the things.

And sometimes like simplicity, it's so much better and so

much easier and cleaner.

But also having people like us, helping to keep you out of

all of that mess is is though.

So incredible.

That's the key, and I'm sure that you keep seeing this happening over and over again.

That's people come to you and they were like, yeah, I wanna do this, but they

don't even know how to get started.

And that's exactly why you need someone like you, or I, that has the external

point of view and you are not emotionally caught up in the whole process.

You can objectively look at, okay, here's what's going wrong.

Are you here to listen to me and see what we can do for you?

Yes or no, because if someone, I would say, don't go and

find a mentor for yourself.

If you're not ready to receive advice.

And if you're not open minded, to make changes because clearly if something isn't

working, you need to change something up.

Yeah.

And if someone is not open to receiving that constructive

feedback, or even sometimes could feel like criticism for some people.

Please don't work with mentors or coaches because , you are going to be

throwing your money away and you're not going to be having a great time,

but if you are truly committed to make some lasting changes, not just in your

business, but in your own mindset as well.

And in your, generally in your mood and your life, then those are

definitely one of the best investments.

And.

I'm still benefiting from what I learned from six, seven years ago from my first

coach, because yeah the methods and the tools that he was teaching me I'm still

using them day to day, like 80, 20 rules.

So I don't burn myself out.

So those things I'm still using.

Yeah.

I think also to add to that, yes.

Working with mentors and things but also when you decide to work with a strategic

service provider, either an OBM or a marketing, specialist or whatever Also

be prepared to shake some things up.

Cause I it's always fun.

The first, few weeks or months working with someone it's so

why did you decide to do this?

And a lot of times, which we've all been there, it's just, I

thought it would be easier.

Or I saw this tool or so, and so used this tool.

And so I thought it would be good and none of that is wrong.

But the way that we're thinking and working.

Is not only what works for you now, but what works in six

months, 12 months, three years.

Because all of these tools, especially when it comes to marketing and operations.

Yeah.

There's a new tool every other day.

That's a, I do all the things, none of the things, this thing,

plus this and it, you just get.

Get lost.

That's just one thing.

But the other thing that also happens is that as you are growing as an entrepreneur

and you are becoming more confident, you're becoming more experienced and

you just become a lot better at what you do, your goals will change over time

and your business has to reflect that.

So if you came up with a cool strategy that worked great for you, I don't

know, two years ago, because at the time you were struggling to, let's

say to get clients, and now you.

Phase when you have too many clients and you're falling behind on your

administration or, yeah, I don't know.

Like you're not having time to deal with customer reviews or things like that.

So these goals are changing over time as you are evolving as a person,

your business needs to reflect that.

So it's absolutely, it's perfectly okay to change even direction sometimes.

Yeah.

But even become that now you realize that you've outgrown yourself and

you are outgrowing your own business.

So yeah.

That's not a nice feeling to have, That's the case.

Look at ways.

How else can I expand to not just with my business, but based on who I've become

as a person compared to who I was six months ago or yesterday or two years ago.

Do the same thing, do the same thing in your business.

Otherwise you're not going to have a fun time in the long term.

you're going to end up hating your business because it's

holding you back over time.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Gosh, I couldn't agree more.

Moving into.

One of the, fun part of the discussion, just to learn a little bit more

about you is our speed round.

So these are just fun questions to learn a little bit more about you.

First question is what book or TV show are you obsessed with right now?

Book the one, the number one book that I always go back to is

Napoleon who think and grow rich.

That was a big catalyst for my own mindset.

And I love that it was written like nearly a hundred years ago.

Yeah.

And it's still relevant.

So that's definitely one of the best books for mindset and goal setting.

TV shows.

I really love dark.

I love, I dunno if you've seen it.

It's cool.

It's about time traveling and like all this mind bending.

I like cool TV shows that.

Making you like what's going on?

I don't get it.

Yeah, no, I love that.

It's called dark.

Is that what you said?

Dark.

It's a German TV show, but it's all Netflix in English.

So it's it's a really cool one.

I would so recommend it.

It's a really cool storyline.

yeah.

Awesome.

Okay.

What is one of your favorite quotes or mantras either told to you read or your

own personal that you go back to often?

I have a lot of them, but if I have to pick just one, I have no idea who

said it was a super smart person out there, somewhere in the universe.

But the saying is that nothing changes if nothing changes and I just love that.

It's so powerful because you cannot expect something great to happen to you

if you're not doing something differently.

So nothing changes if nothing changes.

Yeah.

Love that.

Okay.

Last question.

If you had 10 hours back in your week, what would you do with those 10 hours?

I probably do some voluntary work.

I'm such a high energy person that I cannot just sit still for too long.

So even I actually took an eight, nine month break from my career

when I was figuring things out.

And I that's when I was traveling for a bit and I still ended up taking on Pro

bono projects because I was just bored.

And I was like, yeah, I was in S Lanka in the middle of a jungle.

And I ended up delivering a customer service training to those people who

were running your host over there.

So I that's probably, I would be doing just to find someone

who's completely confused.

Doesn't have the finances to invest in a mentor.

And probably I would dedicate my time to that to give back to the community,

because if I can use my time wisely, Then probably that would be the best way of

doing it to create some ripple effect.

And then hopefully that person can then do the same.

And that's how we all make an impact on one another.

I love that.

Perfect.

Timmy.

It's so great chatting with you.

If people aren't listening and they wanna find you where can they go?

Yeah, the best way is to go to my website, which is connect

one marketing and it's one.

O E not the number one.

So connect one, marketing.com.

And I've got a ton of free resources there as well.

A lot of articles for people who are struggling to either start

or grow their business, so feel free to, to browse through.

And you can also find all my social links from the website.

From there.

Perfect.

Awesome.

Thank you so much for being on the show.

It's so great having you.

Thank you for having me.

It's a really cool podcast as well.

I wanna say major thanks as well for having me and keep changing

lives because you're doing something amazing right back at you, my friend.

Thank you so much.