Show Summary:

• Melissa welcomes listeners to another episode of Soul Inspired You.
• Co-host Beth Hewitt is introduced, and Melissa expresses excitement about getting to know Beth better.
• Beth introduces herself as a spiritual business performance coach and shares that she has lived a soul-inspired life since she was young.
• Childhood memories of spiritual exploration, magical family, and open-minded surroundings are discussed.
• Beth shares early memories of feeling a connection to spirituality, such as encounters with oracle cards and discussions of past lives.
• The significance of Beth's spirit animal, the faun, is discussed.
• Beth recalls a childhood experience of visualizing and manifesting a red bouncy castle at the age of four.

Navigating Early Adulthood:

• Beth talks about exploring spirituality throughout her childhood and adolescence, including activities like meditation, oracle card readings, and scripting.
• Feeling the pressure of societal expectations, Beth discusses her struggles in school and the realization that there must be more to life.
• Beth shares her experience of feeling stuck in a job she disliked, working in an old converted cell, and experiencing anxiety and depression.
• The podcast hosts discuss the common experience of feeling trapped in a monotonous, conventional lifestyle.

Pivoting Careers and Transformation:

• Beth describes her journey of pivoting through various careers, experiencing 25 different paths.
• The importance of understanding different facets of society and gaining diverse work experiences.
• Melissa emphasizes the challenges faced by those stuck in a mundane routine and the need to reconnect with joy and playfulness.
• Beth discusses reaching a point of despair and anxiety, leading her to reevaluate her life and make a significant change.

Transition to Soul-Inspired Life:

• After leaving her job, Beth shared her experience of taking a leap of faith and becoming intentional about her desires.
• The significance of planning and finding a safety net when transitioning to self-employment is discussed.
• Beth emphasizes the importance of using tools like visualization and scripting to manifest intentions and navigate transitions.

Power of Visualisation:

• Beth talks about her "Create Your Vision Intensive" visualisation technique and its evolution.
• The session involves reflection on the past, finding focus, creating a vision, and developing an action plan.
• Beth shares her role in supporting individuals to stay on track, reconnect with their vision, and navigate life's ups and downs.

Looking Ahead:

• Beth discusses her plans for expanding gratitude and vision-building events, writing a book, and focusing on the Visualise You podcast.
• The Visualize and Thrive Business Club is mentioned, providing group coaching, masterminding, visualizations, and meditations.

Words of Wisdom and Book Recommendations:

• Beth advises listeners to listen to their inner whispers, trust themselves, and raise their expectations of what is possible.
• Recommendations for two books: "Follow Your Passion, Find Your Power" by Bob Doyle and "The Happy Pocket Full of Money" (focused on abundance).

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of

soul inspired you. I am Melissa, and today

we are getting to know our co host, Beth

Hewitt. It is so nice to be in your company

again today, Beth. Hi, Mel. I'm excited for today's

episode. I'm excited. We've mentioned over

the last two episodes about how this

podcast came about, and I'm really excited to get

to know you a little better and to help our audience

get to know you a little better, because I know you have some

fascinating stories and I also know that we have

some beautiful synchronicities and serendipities

between us. So let's start by

telling everybody a little bit about you and how

you launched into your soul inspired life. So

hi, everybody, and thank you, Mel, for the introduction. So, I

currently a spiritual business performance coach, but I haven't

always been that. And it took me quite a while to actually get to that

point as well. It's difficult to pinpoint, I think, where the soul

inspired life started, but I do

know that it started when I was very little. And

there were moments and glimpses

of something lighting up inside of me as a child.

And like you, I also had

magical family and surroundings, which allowed me to really

explore that and feel comfortable being

spiritual and into all of the magical things. From a very young age,

my mum would go to spiritual circles. She

would do oracle cards, and when I was very little, she

would bop me on the nose and we would do like past lives, and she

would encourage me to talk about my past lives and things like that. And my

grandma was equally magical. And

neither my mom or my grandma practiced a particular thing. They were just very open

to it very naturally. And we would just talk for hours about just

random life philosophies and the universe and all of this.

So I feel very blessed that I had that surrounding from

a very, very, very young age. And I was able to just express

things that felt really natural to me because I know a lot of people

don't have that, or maybe they don't come into that until a lot later.

So that was it from the beginning, really. I was able to be

spiritual and explore. There was kind

of one very young memories and I don't know

my exact age, but it would have been between like nine months and twelve months

old, which seems like ludicrous, but I remember being sat

up in my nappy. I was sitting up and had a little book

like those, those hard books that you get when you're babies. And on one of

the pages, it was like a book of tiny animals,

baby animals. And one of the pages that I opened up on

was this fawn sat in the grass at the foot

of a tree. And I just remember something igniting

inside of me, which I suppose was like joy or just something like,

oh, my God. What? Like awe and wonder. And that's one of the very first

memories that I have. Wow. And so I've always felt

like the faun is my spirit animal

because it was just pure delight

as a baby seeing this picture. Then obviously life continues.

And the next kind of big moment

was, and I think I've told this story in your community before,

is around when I visualized for the very first time at four years old,

very childlike imagination,

but I was able to manifest a red, bouncy castle just

intuitively, using all the senses at four years old. And that, again,

ignited some kind of spark in my soul as to, there's something in

this. I'm not quite sure what it is, because I'm four years old,

but it feels fun. It feels nice. And that was my

introduction to visualization and manifesting at a very young age. And then

there were just things that were dotted about my childhood. So

I would listen to my mum's meditation

tapes, I would do oracle card readings to my friends. And then

when I was a teenager, I would do scripting, the written form of

visualization. I would start to script how I wanted my

life to be. And over a series of weeks, those things started

to slowly happen. So there was all these little things in my

childhood that what I think were the clues

to what I was supposed to be doing in the future. And I say that

a lot to people. The experiences that we have on our

path are big clues to what we should be doing in the future

or are things that we should bring into the work that we

do in the world, because there's a reason why we love them when we were

little. And so we need to find that joy and playfulness

again. And then, like you, Mel, I

could see when I was at school, it felt very much like I was on

a conveyor belt and that I could see that I was going to

have to get the qualifications, I was going to have to get a job and

build my career and get the mortgage and the house. And I

was like, there must be more to this. And I just. I was a very

sad child. So even though I was

surrounded by love, I still felt very sad that this

is what I was heading towards, that there must be more to life. This can't

be it. And I actually dropped out of school for about a year

because I just. It didn't make any sense to me. I started to literally

manifest being ill. And so I took myself out

of the school environment for a little while.

But in doing that, I used to watch like Oprah and doctor

Phil and stuff while I'm at home. Like, that's what I'm doing. That was my

kind of life training while I was at home, out of the classroom.

So I would say my soul inspired life. Started

very young, but it still took me a long

time. My mum used to say, you're going around the houses, why are you going

around the houses? To get to where you want to go? And I was like,

I don't know, I'm just going to try this one. And so I started ping

ponging from career to career to career, just trying to find where I fitted into

the world. So I've literally had, I would say, 25 different

career paths. I could have gone down all of these different routes

until I finally realized that the only way that I was going to be fully

happy was to follow my own

path, my own. The thing that brings me the most joy, and that's

helping other people wake up

to the fact that they don't have to be living this kind of boring

conveyor belt lifestyle. And so I feel like I had to

go through all of that to be able to

really fully understand people in all areas

of life. Because I literally worked in the, I worked in retail, I've worked in

manufacturing, I've worked in politics, events, governance, project

management. I've worked across directorates, children and young people, health,

education, safeguarding health and illness, crime and

disorder. I've literally worked across every facet of society,

which makes it really helpful when you are

helping someone pivot out of something because you can really understand the world that

they are in. And I fully believe that I've been through all of

that so that I can work

and understand more closely what people are going through and

the stresses and everything like that. But it wasn't

until I had to reach kind of anxiety and

depression and felt so incredibly stuck

in the work that I was doing. That was when things

started to change from me. I felt incredibly

stuck. For about eight years, I was stuck in a job that I really

disliked and actually the. I don't think I've ever said totally smell.

The office I used to work in was actually an old cell.

So I worked in a building called old crown court buildings and it

had a link through to the town hall across the way. So there was like

a walkway from the old cells across into the

courtroom in the town hall. And the office that I worked in was actually

a converted cell. It was all painted white, and all the cells had

been knocked through. So maybe three or four cells had been knocked through into one

big space, which was now offices. But the. The windows

were still the small cells, windows that you would have.

And so, being an empath, I would not only feel physically

stuck in the job, I felt I could physically feel the

entrapment of what people would have felt like in that space as they're going towards

their judgment, whether rightly or wrongly. And so

I was stuck there, literally, for eight years, and

I started having those thoughts, you know, like you said, you had these thoughts of

how you could get out of this situation, you know, how I could not go

to my job or something, brakes failing or whatever that was for you. I actually

remember thinking if there were some really high stone steps, and I

actually thought, if I just. I don't want to hurt myself, but if I were

just to fall down these steps, then I wouldn't have to go. And it's terrible

thinking about that, but these are the thoughts that we sometimes have. And I thought,

if I just maybe just twist my ankle or something, then I won't have to

go to work today. That's the space that I was

in. And so it took me to

really reach despair and depression

and anxiety to be removed from that space because I physically couldn't go

there anymore. I was off work with work related stress and

depression. And in that time, that's when my healing start to begin

in terms of what do I actually want to be doing with my life. Yeah.

Because I don't want to be stuck here anymore doing what I once loved, but

I don't love it anymore. And it's not lighting me up. Every conversation I would

have with someone, when you make your coffee at the. You go get your coffee

break, and every conversation I would have with that person would be, I don't want

to be here anymore. Yeah. Oh, it's bad, isn't it? Yeah, it's horrible.

I was literally dragging myself out of bed and then to the bathroom and then

into the car and then to work, and it was just not a good space

to be in. Yeah. And

a lot of people feel like that, and a lot of people, I'm sure, that

you speak to now, and certainly that I speak to through my

clients and my communities are that they've been there, or they are

they. Or they feel like they're moving into that space. And I think we, this

last week is that this

feeling can be this propulsion

into something else. It definitely was. Listening to you

speak it really. I can see that thread of, even as a

child, you creating where you are now. And yeah, your

mum picked up that maybe you were going around the houses, but maybe that's

just. Maybe that's just where it was. And I don't think.

Maybe you have another opinion, but I don't think you have to reach

rock bottom. No, that's why I do the work in the world. One of the

things that I'm really passionate about is helping people not get to

that space, because the clues are always there and we've always got the means and

there's a way forward. When I hit that rock bottom, one of the things I

literally vowed, I looked at myself in the mirror and I said, I'm never going

to reach these depth again. I'm going to live essentially a soul

inspired life. I didn't say those words, but it was that kind of intention. And

I also vowed that I would help other people not have to

be in this space. Sometimes it happens, sometimes that is

the wake up call that people need, in the nice sense, but other people

don't need to do that. And I can see that and I can capture that

in people and, you know, we can help

make a pivot. So that's where it

all began for me.

But then the minute that I decided that I didn't want to be living that

life anymore, I got incredibly intentional about what it

is that I wanted to do and down to the. So when I'm writing a

cv and looking for a new career, I was very clear around who I

wanted to be working with, what kind of hours I wanted to be doing, the

kind of work I wanted to be doing in the world, and just put it

out there. And that led me then to work in the world of business

support. So I'd move out of policy and governance in the public sector,

working in the private sector, in consultancy. So it was a completely different

world. But I'd built up all of these skills in project management

previously, which I could now transfer into the world of business support.

And then for the next six years, I was running business

support programs around the country, helping businesses to

grow. And we would do masterminds and large

conferences, and we have business advisors and just supporting lots of,

lots and lots of businesses, and all the

while using visualization behind the scenes. So I

would actually visualize how many people were at the events and like hitting the

targets and conversations with the team and things like that. And I

just started to use the tools that I had and knew

from very young age and brought them into the world of

business support. Couldn't necessarily. It's not like you could sit in a boardroom meeting and

kind of go, I'm having a download. We definitely shouldn't spend 10,000 pounds on this.

You had to navigate it slightly. But on an evening or on a Sunday

evening, when I'm writing my journal, I was very intentional in

visualizing how I wanted that world to be. And every

single one of those, I managed five different programs. Every

single one of them hit the targets, and every one of them was super

successful. At the end of that, I wanted to

do that. But for spiritual businesses during that time, I was working

with manufacturers and people in retail and pre start

startups, women in business, a whole range of different areas.

But when I started my business, there wasn't

really spiritual business support. There's a lot of corporate,

government funded business support out there, but there wasn't necessarily

spiritual business support for spiritual entrepreneurs. And so

that is why I started my business, to do the work that I'd been doing

for the last six years, but with a very different audience and to

really fill the gap that I was looking for when I started

my business. So how did you take that leap from

working for somebody else and that kind of safety zone that

you've come in into becoming self

employed? So I'm still risk

averse. When actually, when I first left the

council, when I'd hit rock bottom, I didn't have a job to go for.

It was literally, I can't do this anymore. So I did

quit my job, and I didn't speak to my partner about

it because I didn't know I was going to quit. That morning when

I did, it was just something came over me and I sent him

my notice of I'm not coming back here anymore. And that was accepted. And then

I just put the cv out into the universe and had to, it'll be

okay, we'll be able to pay the mortgage. When I did it intentionally,

when I then had been running the business support programs, and then when I decided

I wanted to run and do that for myself, it was a very different. I

was in a very different space. I was in a much more positive space, and

I was in a much more risk averse space, even though I'd done it previously

and I'd taken that leap and it worked out absolutely fine. Wanted to do

it slightly differently. This time. And so I used the

skills I already had to sidestep into self

employment. So I got a job as a

non executive director for the NHS. And so that was like

one and a half days a week, but yet it paid like a full time

wage. And that was my kind of cash flow,

enough to give me a wage that I was used to. It was a lot

less than what I'd got previously, but it was. You cut your clothes accordingly. He

paid me a wage and gave me some cash flow to start

the business up. So it was different. And I would always

encourage people to. We don't always. It doesn't have to be a massive leap of

faith where you've got no safety net. You can plan things and look at things

differently and reduce your hours or whatever works for

you, but equally you might want to go, you might want to take that leap

of faith and that might be absolutely fine too. Yeah. And I think it

is. You need to feel safe in your own so that if this

manifestation law of attraction thing works, as we say, it

works, you need to be in that space that's going to motivate

you rather than put you into panic. Yes.

Yeah, I would absolutely agree. And then the good thing is as well, I could

still use the tools to. I was visualizing getting

the non executive position. I was visualizing how long I would be in that post.

I was visualizing how I would build my business up through that, that

three year period kind of thing. So, yeah,

amazing. You talk a lot about visualization and

how visualization helps you. And I know through your coaching business and

through a lot of the work that you do, it inspires people to visualize

their creation. So what is

it particularly about the visualization

route or what is it that you

received from your download or that you created

or that you, that you worked on that made you pick that

particular route to getting to where you want to

be. I think it's like, did I pick it or did it pick me? I

suppose is that, I don't know where those two lines

merge kind of thing, because visualization was there for a very young

age and scripting was there from a very young age.

Scripting is a written form of visualization and you've got obviously, say, the

visualization I think, that most people think about. But

for me it's about bringing all of the senses into that visualization. I think sometimes

people think vision is just visual, but there's so

much more to it. And so that just felt,

I don't feel like there was a day when I went, oh, this is the

tool that I'm going to use. It just felt like this is the tool that

is to be used because this is the tool that has always been given to

me and I've always been guided by. So I would say that's where

that tool came from. But

I just knew. So I did my coaching qualifications a few years before I

left my job, and I knew that I wanted to do

coaching in my business as well. And so it was

a download in terms of developing a coaching kind of session

that incorporated visualization. And that's where my create your vision

intensive session was born,

which really draws in all of

the different elements of

visualization, oracle card reading,

meditation, and a little bit of scripting.

But it's a really long guided visualization that we go through that brings

in all of those senses. And so I had this idea and structure

of what that session would look like, and I just put it out

there and someone

signed up straight away. I was like, oh, my goodness, this is. Somebody actually

believes in what I'm doing. And funnily enough, it was somebody from

my corporate world who I didn't think had any

spiritual inclination or wasn't interested in that world. And all of a sudden

they're like, yeah, of course, why would I not want to be interested? We worked

really well together when we were working on this. I've always been intrigued about

how you do what you do. And they was like, now it makes total sense

because I never really understood how you were filling all of these events

up and how you're doing all this work. And so he was

one of the first people that took me up on that tool, and then

that tool has just evolved. And I've maybe

supported hundreds of people through the create your vision intensive process.

That tool in particular, it allows you to

reflect. In that session, we reflect on the past. We find

those nuggets of gold from the past. We find

your focus. We cut through all of the clutter and get to that

focus, and then we create a vision around that particular

area, and then we create an action plan. As a former

project manager, I would use action plans

all of the time, practically need to get stuff done, so that it's where the

spiritual meets the practical, and then we would create the action

plan. So people have got the tasks and the timelines for that, and then they

move into taking action and maybe

creating an affirmation or a longer form script to support them.

And so for me, everything on everything that you do, everything on

your to do list everything that we should be doing day to day should be

linked back to that vision. I find a lot of people have just got things

on the to do. List that are just on there. They're just on

the to do list that have been on there for ages. But why are they

actually on there? Is it actually leading them to where they want to go? And

so when we go through that create your vision intensive process, everything

that you have on your to do list, then moving forward is really linked

to the vision and what it is that you're trying to achieve. And you might

need to have multiple visions, you might need to have multiple different variations of things

for whatever's going on in your life. But that tool in itself

has helped so many people reconnect to

what is important to them, what they're passionate about and what they want to be

doing in the world. And then my, my role

is really just to support them, to stay on track,

to hold them accountable. But in a sense that sometimes we do fall

off track. Life has ups and downs, and sometimes we need to veer

off or take time out. And I'm there when

people are like, okay, I'm ready to come back now, and

we reconnect to the vision. And so

that's how the create your vision intensive process works and the visualization works.

But then that's backed up by the visualize and thrive business club,

which has the group coaching and the

masterminding and the visualizations and meditations

and accountability. I love all of it because,

you know, I'm listening to you and I can hear how

you have created this life from a very young

age, that element of magic from nine months old

and then four when you're like, oh my God, I've literally manifested a

bouncy castle out. And then to the more

struggle aspects at school with, oh, there must be more than

this. There's actually a very potent question

when we ask it as a question, how does it get better than this? Is

this all there is? And I, and as we open up to that, you

can see through your life how your visualization, being in that

cell and then seeing, physically seeing that

and being and feeling that surrounding and keeping you stuck

in the job and leading into what you then

experienced, I think it shows people just quite

how powerful visualization is. And we're doing that. We're doing

that all day, every day. But it sounds to

me that what your superpower is really helping people get

clear on what's the thread, what is it that you've

been working towards? Where have we been getting distracted

with the other shiny objects or not so shiny or big walls that

we, that we can't climb up? And

I can notice from that level this

golden thread that's been running through of how you are

absolutely perfectly placed in the position that you are

to then, like you say, help other people. Well done,

you. Thank you. It took a while to get here, but I'm here now

and I'm doing it day in, day out now. And there's nothing more dreadful

than doing that. And I'm excited to, you know, where it's heading

next kind of thing. So where is heading next, what we're. Working on

right now. So I will continue to do, I do four

gratitude and vision building events a year because gratitude is one of the

other areas that I really like to focus on. So I will be working on

those, really building that out over the next couple of years, letting

more and more people know about that journey, because it's a

30 day journey that does a lot of this reflective

work, building up these gratitude muscles and then learning to visualize

and create visions together, but in a really safe,

compassionate community. So I will be doing more

of that over the next couple of years and just really getting that out there.

And there is, I'm sure there's a book. I've

already got my power of scripting book, but I'm sure there's a book inside of

me. And I really want to get my

visualize you podcast out there into the world as well, because that was something that

I set up during the pandemic, because I

started my business like you do start the pandemic

as we do. And so one of the things that I did, because

obviously I couldn't be out there networking and all of the other things I wanted

to do was I started the podcast and it was incredibly successful and I'm

incredibly proud of it. But then it took a back burner as I

started to build the visualize and try business cloud. But I want to

really focus more on the visualize you show, because

that is a space that has the power to really

inspire lots of people to take a leap of faith on

themselves, more so than I could ever do alone, because you're listening

to the stories of people who have done that

and in lots of different sectors and in lots of different parts of the world.

And as much as I have had ridiculous amount of career pivots

in my lifetime, and I know about lots of different sectors and things like

that, there's so much to be said and

how better to do that than to listen to other people's stories. And I love

interviewing people. I literally love interviewing people and just get

into the nuggets of wisdom in their life and do more

of that. So I really want to focus on the

visualise you podcast next and just getting that out there more and

more. We will put the link to the visualize you

podcast in the show notes. So if anyone wants to jump

in and hear these amazing stories and learn a bit more about

Beth and the amazing people in her world, then.

So I want to ask you this for our

listeners, what advice would you like

to give them so that they can be living

more soul inspired? I think it's listen to

those whispers because they're there and they're telling us.

They're telling us something. And to trust yourself

fully, know that if you

desire something and it's not here and it's

not fully manifested right now, that

it's there for you to listen to and to

play with and create a vision around that and

believe that you can make that happen

and raise, I would say, raise your expectations of what is

possible for you. We don't need to play small, even

if something feels so out of reach and

you're like, how on earth am I going to make that happen? That's so different

to how the life that I'm currently living know

that we don't need to know all of the hows right away. As long as

we're, as long as we've got that vision and we're taking action towards it, however

small that is to begin with, and we're showing the universe that

we're willing to do the work, then the universe will

meet you halfway and it'll start to open doors for you and things like that.

So if there's something that you truly want to be doing,

then follow that thread, listen to those whispers

and speak to people and network and find out and

learn and read books, whatever it is, whatever it is for you, I know that

it's been given to you to do something with. And when

you're ready to do it, just go for it. So don't be afraid to try

something new. I love that. I love

that. And I think that some of. I think that last

bit of advice, I'd love to dive into that a little bit

more in a future episode of wedding. Something feels really

big, like, what do we do so that we can keep moving in

towards that. Yeah, I think that would be a really great

conversation to have. I've got one more question

for you okay, just because you said, go read books,

what is your part from your own, which we will also

put in the show notes. What's your book recommendation for our

listeners to help? That's a good. Yeah, that is a good

one. Looking at my bookshelf, there's one that I like that's

got a really long title. It's called follow your passion, find your

power. Everything you need to know about the law of attraction. It's by Bob Doyle.

I don't know if you've read that one. It's a really good.

It just breaks down all of the different elements and just tells it in such

a way that makes sense. So I really love that book. And I've also got

a book called the happy Pocket Full of money, which is

a wonderful book, but it's more about abundance rather than just law of

attraction generally. So that is a really a great book to read as well.

So, yeah, those are my two recommendations.

Thank you. Now you have added two more books to my book list.

Thank you. Beth, it's been a pleasure to get to know you a little

bit. And I want to encourage our listeners as well. We've put this

on for our listeners and to help them become

more soul inspired. So if any questions

or realizations or comments have come up,

please do get in touch with us and we would love

to hear what you're thinking and to feed some of your questions

into our future episodes. Beth, thank

you for being here, for being you, and we

will see you all next time. See you all then.