Daje James aka The Story Doula is a brand strategist, author, artist, and story doula. This is one of the most important conversations I’ve ever had on my podcast, planting powerful seeds for new ways to show up online and approach business.
Out of the ashes of old paradigm business strategies, arise beautiful intuitive, cyclical ways of being in the world.
We discuss:
Finding beauty in tension
Being an enneagram 7
Writing as a portal of transformation
Looking inside, instead of outside, to understand who you are (self-referral vs object-referral via Deepak Chopra)
The power of being present with your story
Dharmic creative flow
Being an expression of the Creator
Surrendering your life
Daje’s spiritual and human journey and experience with religion as a child
Daje shares her experience being a worship leader
Tending to the portal of your work
Facing the fears of being unoriginal, incompetent and irrelevant because of lack of formal schooling
Not dancing around discomfort
Letting go of pleasing people
Owning the bigness of your soul
Meeting a hybrid human from another star system
Why past lives and other star systems are extracurricular activities
The story of the timelines converging in one Instagram account
Bridging art, strategy, marketing, business and spirituality
Daje’s ancestor that shows up often in readings
The moment at coffee shop when Daje’s “piercing” soul got reflected back to her
Learning to allow your soul to do what it’s here to do
How is it possible that different people get the same energy downloads?
Regenerative business practices and letting go of old paradigm strategy
Grace as a portal of innovation
Cyclical strategies and the medicine of masculine cyclicality
Why alignment alone won’t cut it
Letting go of obsession with linearity
Making space for soul work
Allowing things to all apart in the creative process
Releasing binary story of success
Trusting yourself to be held through identify death
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174 Aaron Rose: Integrating Spiritual Awakening Into The Human Experience and Becoming Uncancellable
172 Part One: I forgot who I am
173 Part Two: I'm remembering who I am
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