S2 E3: Rewilding Business + Alignment with Natalie Brite
In this episode, Lexie and Rebecca speak with Natalie Brite, a business rewilding mentor who helps creative entrepreneurs in impact-based businesses find authentic approaches to business that allow them to embody who they really are. In this inspiring conversation, we talked about so many things, including alignment, slowing down, flexible self care, and most of all, following your own inner voice to follow what’s right for you personally.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Shifting paradigms within the business industry and rewilding with creative, authentic, unique approaches that embody who we are
Natalie’s background in art and philosophy, and how she discovered that she’s “good at business”
Natalie’s journey into online business and how that’s developed since her first business, an MLM
Having the audacity to try something risky and believe that it can happen, while also planning for the unexpected
The benefits (on both Natalie and her clients) of being process-oriented
The benefits of slowing down, and how social media reinforces the opposite
Being a workaholic and ingrained beliefs about work inherently being hard
Dismantling the idea that worth is connected to work
How “following the rules” hurts our creativity, and giving ourselves permission to do things our own way
Natalie’s biggest personal hurdle
Risking changing the stability of a norm
Navigating how to make space for something new
What Natalie’s daily alignment practice looks like and how she adapts it to fit her needs, balancing structure and flexibility
Giving ourselves what we need in an intentional way, and self-compassionately adjusting as needed
Giving ourselves permission to have our own preferences and learn our own identities
Plant communication, wildcrafting, and plant allies, which has affected how Natalie views her own energy cycles
Creating sacred rituals out of any action to infuse them with meaning
Self care as soul nourishment, not as a means to an end
Nature and embodied movement as self care
Natalie’s advice for business owners who want to be more intentional about seeking fulfillment in all areas of their lives
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