Welcome back to The Conscious Home Podcast! This episode is all about igniting the fire of soulful entrepreneurship in each one of us. It's a deep dive into the fusion of doing business with heart, prioritizing passion and purpose. Join us as Blanche shares her wisdom on how to integrate your passions with your profession and live a life that is true to who you are.

• (00:01:30) Discovering Soulpreneurship: Join us as we explore the world of soulpreneurship, where business meets passion and purpose. Blanche talks about creating a life’s work that not only feeds your soul but also serves the greater good—it’s about making a career that feels right at heart.
• (00:08:45) The Art of Conscious Choices: Blanche explores the power of intention in our decisions—turning down what doesn't fit and embracing what feels right. She shares her personal practices for operating a business that's both successful and soul-satisfying.
• (00:13:14) The Divine Feminine in Business: Blanche discusses how the divine feminine can reshape our approach to business, advocating for compassion and authenticity in professional endeavors.
• (00:16:00) Aligning Your Business with Your Soul's Purpose: Blanche delivers an empowering message on leading with your soul in the world of entrepreneurship, creating a path that’s both rewarding and impactful. She offers practical advice for soulpreneurs striving to create a workplace that resonates with their inner values and brings joy to their team.

Let's keep the dialogue going! Connect with us on social media at @conscioushomebgd, where we continue to revel in enlightenment, disseminate inspiration, and build a community of kindred spirits from diverse pathways of life.

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Welcome home, everybody.

That is to the Conscious Home podcast.

My name is Blanche Garcia and I'm your host.

So, what does it mean to be a soulpreneur?

some of you may be I hear this word.

all the time, and have no idea what that means.

And we all know what it means to be an entrepreneur, right?

it's really interesting, say that a lot, but it is interesting, because I feel

like You're hearing that word much more

often,

people are really following work that sets their soul

on fire.

And Lightworkers, and I say Lightworkers because it's really

those of us on the planet, I consider myself one of them, that

is working, whether

it's in business just

by how they lead their life in alignment with Not only the benefit

of their own soul path, but to benefit the planet and the people around

them

in their own way.

And this could be anybody who just wants to make people happy.

They just want to leave it better than how they got here.

So they may walk around saying, Hope you have a nice day.

It could be that guy on the corner that passes by you and just smiles

where most people aren't even paying attention or have awareness.

He could be a light

worker because just by him

smiling makes you smile and guess what?

That exchange of energy just makes it brighter.

It changes the energy in that space and it's one of those

things that just procreates.

It just keeps going and going.

that could be a lightworker and then also

it could be literally like Gandhi that's like I want to change the

planet or someone for sustainability or someone who's an actor who loves

make people laugh or teachers, It could literally be an artist that just

through their art, they are just so happy and love what they do that the

pieces that they create transform people.

it's really like just anybody that's

working in vibration in alignment with what they want

to do, what brings them joy.

And then that is actually helping other people because believe

it or not, your energy inspires

or activates other

people all the time.

I come across it in what I do.

I'm an interior designer.

I also do conscious home.

So yes, that does help the

planet and people in a lot of ways.

so there's a lot of different things that I do.

But to be honest with you, the biggest way that I see myself as a

lightworker is that I stay really true to who I am and I follow my soul

path, regardless of what that means.

By living that way out loud, by living

with that purpose, I feel like that activates other people to want to

also live their purpose, to want to also be inspired, to

like be their best selves, more so than me being a green designer or, conscious home.

Those are just

of things that I love to create

and it helps people, but in different ways.

I think that since

2020, a lot of people have really been

saying I don't want to do this type of work.

I'm no longer doing what I don't want to do.

I'm going to figure out what I want to do and go

in that direction.

So soulpreneur has been thrown around a lot and it's really somebody

who embodies their business but instead of like saying like I am the

business, male energy warrior and I make decisions

I'm cutthroat and I I want to make the most money I can and forget about you.

It's me first instead of that mentality.

kind of the opposite of it.

It's kind of like the divine feminine in a lot of ways.

And I say that in a way that's not to pit male and female against each other.

It's just that We are now energetically and astrologically in a space that

it really is the rise of the divine feminine, and we're seeing it a

lot with women and this is not just for women, but we're seeing

the rise of the woman entrepreneur.

We're seeing the

divine energy of the feminine Rising

in situations and leading in business

a lot of ways, it's kind of like that intuitive energy.

for instance, how does that manifest in how I run my business and how

does that manifest with a lot

of

solepreneurs?

when you use your and your heart as your guide to make decisions,

it's not like you're making these

decisions in absence of what you, your brain or

what you know to be true physically or what makes sense.

You're just in alignment

that

I make

decisions based on what feels right first.

I check in with myself, my intuition.

I make

sure that The decision that I'm making is in alignment with where I want

my life to go, where I feel like is

my sole

purpose.

It's bigger picture, right?

It's not just what's going to make me the most money.

Now with that, don't get it twisted because we all want abundance.

We can actually have the lives we

want And still make a lot of money.

There's enough money enough abundance to get paid what we deserve.

because there's so much out

there and remember that, you can do what you love and still get paid for it.

And the rule of being a soulpreneur, one of the things that is what I do every day

is that when I'm making a decision or I'm

making an agreement, I want to make sure that the relationship that I'm

having, the agreement that I'm making is not just good

for myself, it's good for the

other party because when

both people are benefiting, everybody

involved in

that is benefiting from the arrangement, from the agreement, from the relationship.

Everybody wins,

the people that work under me,

my staff, I want to make sure that the culture I create, the energy I

create, that They're happy as much

I'm happy.

Now, I still have be the

one charge.

I still have to lead because it's my business.

It's

my

name on the door.

So it's not like I'm some flower child running around me like,

Everybody, whatever choice you want

and I'm just going to go along and love and light.

It's not that.

It's that I'm grounded.

I'm centered.

I know who I am.

and within that I just

ensure that along with me and my happiness, I like to check in

and make sure that everybody's getting what they need out

of this arrangement, right?

And I also make sure is that I'm checking my energy as much

as possible at the door.

So I have bad days just

like anybody

else.

I am.

Human right?

We're all

human and there are days that like literally life gets to me

but when that happens instead of acting out and reacting I

really try to go internal and go, okay, why am I feeling this way?

Let me try to explain to the team, I'm having a crappy day

so they don't think that this is

about them.

If I do have a problem, I do bring it up with them or

even my clients.

So if something's bothering me, I don't let it fester.

And that's one of the things

I activate

soul base.

I make sure I'm coming from my heart.

if there's something that's not.

in alignment something's not right, I'm going to have a

conversation about it and find out from both sides where we can go

from here or explain myself, right?

So again, I'm leading with heart and this comes along with boundaries

too.

I have clients that I like to make sure that I love the people that I work with,

that I love the projects that I work on.

It's not like

a hundred percent we are

Human we have businesses and

sometimes you have to take projects and situations that are okay.

Like you like the

person but you're not going to make a ton of money or you're going to make a

little bit more money and they're nice enough but it's not going to be, it's

going to be like a short project, And sometimes that happens but I really do

try to work with people And on projects that feel good to me, that immediately my

energy's like, yeah, I want to do this,

It doesn't always make sense but yeah, let's do this.

I like

this, right.

when you're in that energy

of running a business, for me

where that

shows up and this doesn't always

make sense for a lot of

other people and I've actually gotten a lot of feedback through

my career even before I started Conscious Home when I was just

doing interior design.

One of the things that everybody

has always told me that

I run my business

very differently than a lot of other people and what that means is that

there are a lot of times that I'll have projects that come to me that I've met

with the client and I looked at

the potential project.

I either had a bad feeling or the

client

was not someone I really felt like I wanted to with.

It didn't feel right.

and I've actually walked away from the project.

I've said no to more projects than actually I've said yes

sometimes.

and there been times that working under me, contractors, architects, you name it.

They've been like, what are you talking about?

bookkeeper, bankers, they're like Blanche.

And

sometimes it's based solely on faith, meaning that I know that

you're looking at this video right.

now and you're saying, but Blanche, you must have so much money in The

bank when you say no to these projects.

No, there are

times.

When literally there is like barely anything in the bank, but I refuse

To fill my energy and my days

with something that's

going

to make me unhappy because that vibration going to bring more of the same

type of project, the same type of energy.

And that's when you're following your own guidance, you're following your intuition.

I take projects that.

Like really, I feel strongly this is a no.

It doesn't leave space for the ones are a yes, because there's

already something in that space.

That's rule.

The rule is two things cannot occupy the

same space.

So you have a choice.

You either want to fill it with crap or things you love.

That's your choice.

And in business, I'm really hyper aware of that.

So I say no to a lot more things than I say yes to The second part

of this is that I've had projects

I'm

literally In the middle of,

you know, there's a lot going on

and then all of a sudden

it's wrong.

It doesn't feel right.

Everything's going wrong.

The client's completely unhappy.

I've had conversations.

There's nothing I do to make them.

happy.

It's just, we're not jiving at that point.

I have

chosen to walk away.

And that

is very interesting

a lot of people.

But when you're in business and you're an entrepreneur and you know, what feels off

when you ignore that, it's like a slow

death.

it

kind of eats away

you every day.

You're

like, Oh, the phone rings.

You're like, Oh, You wake up in the morning,

You're like another day.

That's how people start hating their jobs.

or even hating their lives.

They don't want a deal.

And they end up

saying yes

to these things because

they're like, it's

gonna make them it's going to

get

them.

PR.

It's going to get

them in magazines.

It's going to get them XYZ.

And what they're doing is when they are allowing this to stay in their life,

in their business, they're saying, I

want more of that.

Please send me more

of that.

Please That's what happens.

and What I've also seen in businesses is that you have to be

really hyper aware of

the type of energy

clients,

what you say yes to allow into your because it doesn't only

affect you, it affects the people who work

under you.

So remember that like you're all symbiotic, you're all part of one team.

like, how horrible would it be If I took on clients that I knew

were horrible or projects that I knew were going be like completely horrible,

but I was like, Oh, but I don't have

to deal with them.

I'll just

let my team deal with them.

So now they hate their life.

How long do you think before they're not going to

be around or they're going to not put in the work or they're

not going to put in their

passion?

having a business, being an and going in the direction of not

only following your heart and your intuition and your passion is,

just treating

others and like you would want to be treated, accepting things

that bring you joy and learning

to cut things off and put boundaries up when is out of alignment,

having the tough conversations, being completely transparent.

for instance, my contracts are very transparent.

My clients know exactly What they're getting, how they're getting it.

I spell it all out.

We talk about everything up front.

There is no shadows.

There's no questioning later on.

I do this because I don't want the stress in my life of having

to hide or figure it out later.

That's when it becomes an issue.

communication up front working with integrity.

So if you're going to work with integrity, you want be open and communicative and

make sure everything's out on the table.

Have the tough conversations early

on.

It's when you get married, you don't wait till you're married and

already in it before you discuss

having children or where you're going to live.

you do that before You get married and all those things, even though

some people don't, you know, that's a whole different conversation.

So make sure everything's really, really clear.

I would rather

you know where I stand so that I know what I will

and will not do.

You know what expect from me.

It's really important.

I set up my

business that there is these ahead of time.

Another thing that I do, I realized, and

I went really deep as an entrepreneur, and say this to anybody running their

business, what are the biggest stressors

in my business And how do I get rid

of those So one of the big

stressors in my business as an interior designer, I remember this,

Is, obviously chasing money, right?

So how do I not chase money?

and also, every day have

be in the books?

Cause I hate dealing with numbers.

I'm much more happier and I'm in my happy space when I'm creating and that's

most creative people.

So how do I do more of that and less of the other, right?

and so for

instance, in my

industry, I'll give you an example.

commissions.

like, to buy furniture

through a designer.

Usually it's very commission based.

And if you buy a piece of furniture through them, you have to pay

part

of the

commission.

But with that, there's a deep

discount designer gets and, they pass along some that

discount, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So either way, you're

paying the designer for the use of their discount, but you're

also the designer, the managing of

that product because they are going to be the ones dealing with the ordering,

making sure everything gets to where it needs to be and then having it delivered

and everything should be great, In a perfect world, there's nothing broken,

blah, blah, blah.

So the designer

carries that headache a lot of designers out there in my career when

I started out, they had a range of commissions.

They're like, Oh, well, if it's this, it's going to be that.

If

this it's gonna be that.

There was like a lot of paperwork a lot of ups and downs of commissions.

you were

constantly trying to follow well, do I do this?

And the client would upset if they found out this and bop, bop, bop, bop.

It

was like a lot of that stuff.

And I said early on, I'm not doing that.

It's one

number One commission And if they don't want to buy it

me, I'm okay with that because it's extremely tedious.

So I'm going to be completely open and upfront with them about what I make.

I'm going to be upfront with them about this is one set

commission, take it or leave it.

They don't have to buy it through me.

I'm okay with that.

And I'm going to structure my pricing accordingly so that I can get paid for

What I love to do which is a creative and if they don't buy a product through

me I don't really care because I've made the money on what I love to do so I'm

not chasing and putting my mind and my energy something that I already hate

doing now

that's.

Very controversial, but I did that

for my peace mind, because my peace mind made more

sense

than making as much money as I could squeeze out of every piece of furniture

and every client.

I care less that.

But oddly

enough what happens is, is that when I'm working with a client and

I give them that option and I'm very upfront with them about it, the

majority of the time they usually buy 90 percent of the items through

me.

And I don't care.

I mean, it's great.

It's like

that cherry on top, but I allow my

peace of mind.

That's the guiding light.

I want to be creative.

I want my peace of mind.

I want my team to be happy.

I want to come

to work and be happy.

I don't have to make the most money out there.

Those are the

things that matter to me.

but if I do all of those things right,

then everything else follows.

And I'm a really big believer in that.

So when we

talk about being a soulpreneur, when we talk

about, running

our business with integrity and just following our purpose and having the heart

in it, those are some of the things that, in my opinion, sets those types companies,

my company apart from, the average And I feel like that's more prevalent today.

Maybe some of these things resonate you and there are small steps

that you can take in running your business that you're like, Hey, I

want to be a little bit happier.

I want to resonate more with the type of work I'm doing.

I would like my staff to be happy as well.

I know it's crazy, right?

And then it kind of like all kind of goes together.

One hand washes the other.

I will say since I've been doing

this, it's the only way I know how to run my business.

And sometimes the decisions that I make,

are not the mainstream what everybody would do.

So these are just some of the

things that I have implemented that they've always resonated with me I always

felt like this is the right way to do things what's funny is is that in that

in 2020 a big thing that came out of the pandemic or people working from home

I actually

always had a hybrid type work calendar or schedule

I always have like a hybrid work schedule with my team.

And as we have grown and we have scaled, I still have a hybrid work schedule.

And that is because it always made me happy and there's like a flow to the week.

Like some days you need collaboration and we love getting together.

And then there are some days that I want to work alone.

I don't want to be around anybody and I feel like, well,

they probably feel that way.

So because of that.

With my own personal company and my staff, we have a hybrid work week

where some people work from home, some people come in, it's pretty flexible.

There are days that are like, these are the

days we're in office it's more of a team collaboration and we love that and we kind

of have our own little thing going on.

And I always make sure the culture

too.

You know, as a small business owner, I'm not some big conglomerate

and I can't offer all the

perks that a huge company can offer.

But what I do offer is that I make sure that I check in with everybody.

They love the work that they're doing.

I like to make

sure that, if they need something, to the best of my

ability, I always try to do that.

And I always try to make sure that

we have a little flexibility.

fun.

Like the other day, we had a vision board session, and we were drinking wine.

Some of us like health smoothies, listening to music and we were really

goal setting and vision boarding because I feel like together that

creates a collective energy that really sets us up So I thought that vision

boarding, that's actually not a word.

We had a discussion about that.

It's creating vision boards.

So

you just let me know because I feel like vision boarding is like waterboarding,

which is not what we're talking about.

We're talking about vision boards anyway.

That is a great

team building exercise that I can get behind because it was literally girl

fest and I'm not gonna lie to you.

Like my team is like my family.

So when you think like that, You try to do what you would want done for yourself.

and I think that a lot of people that lead their business with their

heart, with a sole purpose are really changing the way the office atmosphere,

the business atmosphere is led.

And there's a lot more of us out there than there used to be.

Then you find each other and you want to work together.

Cause you're like, Hey, you're working with.

Authenticity and integrity.

I want to work with you and you make me feel good and it's just creating

that even exchange of energy So that's the world I want to live in.

I don't know about you.