Lisa Welden
Experience Junkie. Co-Conspirator. Transformational Leader.
I believe that everyone has unique medicine to be shared with the world and I love to conspire with heart-based coaches, healers and service-based leaders whose medicine ruffles feathers and disrupts the status quo. I guide my clients to follow their calling and own, design and share their unique medicine so that they can create businesses and lives that light them up.
And quite frankly, to live an inspired, lit-up life, sometimes you have to blow shit up. Especially when life has gotten too conventional, your business doesn't reflect who you are anymore or you feel something more true calling to you.
I encourage you to follow that calling - what lives on the other side is more YOU, more LIFE and more of what's NEEDED in the world.
Here are some of the breadcrumbs I've followed on the path to my calling and what lights me up ("official" experience here):
I caught a man at Cha Cha Cha's in San Francisco as he fainted.
In the midst of my advertising career convincing Fortune 500 companies they needed to be on this thing called the World Wide Web, I was visiting our HQ in SF. We were going to dinner at Cha Cha Cha's and were waiting for our table in the bar. As if a spidey sense got activated, I was drawn to a man standing at the bar and without thinking, ran to catch him as he fainted. I didn't know what to do with him. In fact, I thought his pants were too tight and maybe he wasn't getting enough blood flow (obviously not medically trained. Yet.). It woke something up in me that had been a restless discontent until I realized in that moment - I wanted to help people in a hands-on way. Sometimes the universe is super literal in its nudges.
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Alta Vista helped me find my way (even with dial-up internet).
I was following the feeling that I was meant to help people, but had no idea what that actually looked like. One night I found myself online searching for alternative medicine schools in Denver where I lived, and the only one I found was a Traditional Chinese Medicine school.
I'd been curious about alternative medicine since high school, and had started undergrad as a pre-med major. However, I found myself in organic chemistry a week before the first test without having opened the book. It was literally that anxiety dream - the one about not being prepared (at all) for the exam - but happening in real life. I promptly dropped the class and changed my major to advertising the same week. Phew!
When I showed up to my first night class - Philosophy of Chinese Medicine -I fell in love! Nature-based medicine, non-linear thinking and interconnectedness - I felt like I was coming home.
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I loved making people bleed.
Seriously - blood-letting was one of my favorite techniques in the history of my 15+ years-long Chinese medicine practice. I created my own alchemy of medicine combining functional medicine, muscle testing, Hakomi (mindfulness-based somatic therapy) and spiritual guidance to work with my clients. Seeing how the mental, emotional and spiritual patterns show up physically in the body, and empowering my clients to make choices that created more health, better relationships and fuller lives was a joy.
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No more poop!
Not one more description of bowel movements or the occasional offer to show me a picture of a BM. Enough!
When the fascination of what came out of my clients' orifices (a hallmark diagnostic tool of Chinese medicine) started to wane, along with a growing restlessness like something didn't quite fit, I knew I was being led in a new direction. I now had a deep understanding of the interconnectedness between the physical-mental-emotional-spiritual realms and had seen it played out in myself and my clients for years. I knew that what manifested in the physical started in the energetic-spiritual realm and where I could be of most service was to work in those intangible realms.
To work with people at the soul level. To help them listen to and honor that calling. And that's what I do today through retreats, group programs and 1:1 mentoring.
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My calling is to help you follow yours.
I work at the intersection of personal transformation and your professional expression.
In order to create a business that feels like it's coming from your deepest offering, lights you up because it draws from your innate gifts and feeds you financially, it requires doing the inner work and aligning your energy & the outer work. An integrated approach of Heart + Energy + Smarts!
That's where we conspire together to navigate through the places that can get sticky (or have even stopped you in the past). I'm there to remind you of the power of your vision when you forget. To guide you through the parts you don't know how to do (yet!), and help you claim your unique medicine, design it in a way that fits you and highlights your genius and sell it to your ideal people.
Having founded 3 businesses, I'm on my own journey of transformation and have followed my calling into the Unknown over and over again, designing and structuring businesses that answer that calling and support me and my clients. I have also experienced the growing pains of being complete with a business or modality, taking the time to 'winter' until the next calling forms and taking steps to transition into what's next.
I'm proud to say that in my many years of guiding people to follow their calling, no one has gotten lost AND
all have found parts of themselves they are no longer willing to live without and have created businesses that feel like a genuine expression of their unique medicine.
Ready to follow your calling?