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Summer’s almost here and therefore oftentimes, so are the negative thoughts around your body and triggering dressing room-bathing-suit-try-on-sessions. Oh my. This month a few of my clients and girlfriends have been hit HARD by the body frustration bug. It’s all too easy for SOOOOO many of us to get caught up in a whirlwind of negative thoughts around our beautiful God-Pod so I felt inspired to take some action around it.

As you know, my book “Eat with Intention” is all about making peace with your body, learning how to feed it what it truly needs to be nourished and starting to listen to it’s deep divine wisdom. A lot of my one on one work with bad ass Wonder Woman type women also involves a component of making peace with their body so they can utilize it’s incredible discernment in creating a life beyond their wildest dreams. We need to heal this core relationship in our life so that we can go out there and be PRESENT and joyful co-creators of our best life!

In this week’s Aprecity workshop, I dive into five different tools and tips for navigating negative body thoughts and I’ve decided to share it for free! As someone who has personally lived through disordered eating and struggled with a negative body image, these tools were some of the “in my back pocket” game changers for me. It’s been so important to me to share this work because I know first hand how impactful healing these negative beliefs and making peace with your body can be for truly living your best life. I hope you enjoy! If you’d like to dive deeper with me, I’m offering a “Love Your Body Bootcamp” that begins June 15th and goes for 8 weeks. More details on that below the video! xx C

If this video resonated with you and you are ready to dive even deeper with me this summer, I invite you to join me for my Love Your Body Bootcamp. It’s eight weeks (from 6/15-7/30) of support, tools and coaching to help you navigate this summer like no other!

In the eight weeks together, you will:

  • Learn my best practices for healing (and handling) negative body image spirals, unhealthy eating and exercising reflexes and days where you feel uncomfortable in your skin.
  • Receive tools that will help you rekindle your love for your earth suit on a regular basis.
  • Learn how to decipher what foods and drinks are working for your body and which ones are making you feel bloated, lethargic and inflamed.
  • Start talking to your body and tapping into it’s sacred wisdom.
  • Get weekly support on our group zoom call from me as well as connect with other incredible woman also working through this on their journey.
  • Have weekly videos, light homework and lots of inspiration from me to keep it exciting and juicy!
  • Reboot your relationship with your body, feel better in your own skin and take steps to your healthiest, most radiant self inside and out!
  • Receive a signed copy of my book “Eat with Intention” with a personalized love note from moi!

The entire 8 week program with weekly group support is only $397 and because this work can be amazing to do with one of your already existing girlfriends (although you will be sure to make new ones in the group) I’m offering a bestie bonus, where you each pay only $347 (savings of $50) when you sign up with a friend.

SPOTS ARE LIMITED TO KEEP THE GROUP INTIMATE SO IF YOU ARE FEELING CALLED AND YOU ARE READY FOR THIS TO BE THE SUMMER THAT YOU FINALLY HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH AROUND LOVING YOUR BODY EMAIL ME ASAP TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.

To apply to join the Love Your Body Bootcamp:

  • Email CBODZAK@gmail.com with subject line “Save me a spot for the LYB Bootcamp!”
  • In the body of the email, let me know why you think this program (and my coaching) is for you as well as a brief history on your negative body image and eating struggles.
  • If you have any questions and would like to hop on a 15 min consult call before joining, let me know what days and times are best for us to have a quick chat.

 

If there’s one thing that comes up in almost every week of coaching my clients it’s “how to make the most aligned decision” or how to get clarity on the next most heart-centered step for some situation in their life. I mean, it makes total sense, we are decision making machines and the quality of our choices directly correlate to the quality of our lives soo naturally once we wake up to how powerful we are we are also hyper conscious of our decisions.

Also, for those of you who haven’t worked with my one on one yet, my style is always to teach you HOW to fish and lean away from just giving you the fish. I want to teach my clients how to tap into their soul’s gps and listen to the voice of their inner guidance system so that they can use that skill for everything in their life. There are so many ways to do this and one practice I love is body wisdom but the technique I walk you through in this video may even be simpler — and I find super eye-opening and confirming for those of you who may struggle around important decisions.

I recently used these three steps on a really important business decision that I had be sitting with for weeks. I was in sooo much pain around this decision (probably because it was kind of a big deal for me!) and it wasn’t till I finally got to STEP 3 that the fog cleared and I got my big “ah Ha!”

Watch the video below and let me know what happens when you apply it to something that you need more clarity around right now! Also be sure to SUBSCRIBE and support my YouTube channel — I’m really working on building it up right now so it would mean a lot to me! 🙂

Did the video make you want to dive even deeper? Would you like to get my ear one on one to discuss a business or personal decision that you are craving greater clarity around? You can check out my one one one offerings here: click here for personal or body related and click here for business.

 

As always, thanks for watching, see you next time!

 

xo,

C

Finally, the second video in my “Dreaming to Doing It” series and we are tackling the nay-sayers!

I thought this was a super important topic to drop in on because that sad truth is that this is an inevitable reality that every big dreamer faces. You will at some point or another come up against someone (and gasppp –it could be someone that really loves you and that you really love!) who belittles your dream in a direct or indirect dream and if you are not primed for this, you may actually take what they say seriously. Which I would NEVER want you to do. 

What a lot of people don’t talk about is the fact that so much of turning your dreaming into your doing is keeping it sacred in your heart and protecting it from the projections of others. Click the video below to hear some of my real talk on the subject as someone who deals with this on a regular basis..

 

So what do you think? Are you feeling more prepared to tackle those people who may diss your dream? Let me know in the comments below. I have found that so often with my clients, a lot of the battle is simply KNOWING that it’s just part of the course, it’s not personal and it’s something that everyone that you admire or feel inspired by has tackled at some point in their life and probably still continues to tackle it but is just better at putting the nay-sayers on mute by now!

If you want a deeper dive into turning your dreams in to your doings, visit my mentoring page for more info on booking a one on one intensive with me to give you a jump start.

In the first episode back after our hiatus, our host, Cassandra Bodzak, interviews Phoebe Lapine, a food and health writer, gluten-free chef, wellness personality, culinary instructor, and speaker, born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live and eat. On her award-winning blog, Feed Me Phoebe, she shares recipes for healthy comfort food and insights about balanced lifestyle choices beyond what’s on your plate. Her debut memoir, The Wellness Project, chronicles her journey with Hashimotos Thyroiditis and how she finally found the middle ground between health and hedonism by making one lifestyle change, one month at a time.

Grab Phoebe’s book The Wellness Project at http://amzn.to/2wepyi9 or Cassandra’s book “Eat with Intention” at http://amzn.to/2v6gVpJ

You can find Phoebe on her website: http://www.feedmephoebe.com
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Thanks for listening to the LIGHTMAKER podcast, a carefully curated collection of interviews with spiritual entrepreneurs and heart centered change makers designed to ignite your inner light and guide you in creating your most expansive life with your host, Cassandra Bodzak, holistic lifestyle expert, author, speaker, mentor and host of Eat with Intention TV.

 

Hey guys!

Thought I would try something new and actually write a little Moon blog for everyone — if you like this and want more, please comment below and let me know so I can decide whether or not to keep doing it!

FULL MOON IN SCORPIO

Scorpio goes deep, it’s our subconscious, those deep, deep desires, the things that stir in the depths of our soul. The themes that are coming up for me (intuitively) around this full moon are personal power and staying present on our journey. This week has some pretty powerful astrological events going on and while I am NOT an astrologer, I love being a translator, think of me as your friend who dorks out on astrology for you and runs it through her own filter before giving you the low-down. One of the things that peaked my interest this week while listening to David Palmer’s forecast was that this is a week of breakthrough and conception. We have the opportunity this week to see an old version of our world crumble down around us, which can be painful but is always for the best and makes way for this new path of what we deeply align with to rise up.

So what’s that thing that you truly want from the bottom of your heart? 

Oftentimes, it’s not what other people want for you, in fact, it could be something that other people will actually NOT want for you. You will almost certainly meet resistance. You may lose some people in your life who don’t want to support this new endeavor or path but that’s just part of life and growing.

Your task is to check in with YOURSELF, run it through your own intuitive wisdom and make sure this is something you want to sign up with for the long-haul and not a quick fix or ‘fling’. 

One of my favorite ways to do this is to talk to your body. Your body is deeply connected to your soul and can be a divine translator for you to hear your inner guidance and your soul’s voice. Use it. The meditation below will get you into a juicy, loving place of gratitude with your body and then I invite you to ask the deep questions. Put one hand on your heart and one hand on your navel and just talk to your body — like you are talking to a confidante, or a mentor, or me! Pause. Listen for what comes up, journal for what comes up. If you need help going deeper or more guidance on being able to do this, watch the Aprecity.com Full Moon in Scorpio workshop or you can book a one on one with me and I will walk you through the entire process.

 

STAYING PRESENT TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN

The other theme I feel like is going to come up as we embark on our latest adventure is staying present and taking it day by day. Fear is inevitable, resistance is inevitable, our own self-sabotaging patterns love it when we get excited about something so our challenge is to stay with the “what is”, and climb the mountain one rock at a time.

This past weekend in Arizona, I climbed a mountain with some of my girlfriends one morning and I was so unprepared for it. I love hiking in L.A. so I thought it would be the same thing but this baby was no joke. Every time I looked up at how far I still had to go to make it to the top I would be hit with a wave of, “how the eff am I going to do this?”, I would notice how exhausted I was, how much my thighs hurt, you get the picture. However, I quickly learned to stop focusing on the top, to just focus on the few rocks in front of me I had to scale, just make it up this next path to a safe spot and then the next patch and before you know it I was up there at the top. 

Life is a lot like that mountain. It’s great to set our sights on where we are going, to know our goal but then it’s each day to day accomplishment that gets us there. Similarly, in 12 step programs they tell you to focus on just not drinking today, not over eating today, just make it today — don’t worry about forever because forever is comprised of a ton of todays. Forever or that big dream can feel heavy, can induce fear, but if you break it down to the day by day and stay present to just whats right ahead of you — you will scale that mountain.

Of course more riffing on this, guided meditations and tools in my Moon Workshops and personal sessions. Watch online by joining Aprecity.com and get access to full moon + new moon workshops every month, join me in person at Unplug Meditation in L.A. or schedule a one on one with me to dive even deeper.

xo,

C

 

P.S. Don’t forget to comment below if you’d like to see more of these moon posts! 🙂

On the eve of my thirtieth time around the sun, I spent just a small chunk of my red eye coming up with these 30 things I learned before reaching 30. Truth be told, it’s a bit of a tradition for me to do this exercise each year on my birthday because I love rereading the stream of consciousness list of items I come up with and having a moment of gratitude for really being another year wiser, not just older. However, this year, since I’m entering a new decade and feeling wiser than ever, haha, I thought I would share it with you all! Keep in mind, I could do an individual mini novella on all of these lessons but for the sake of this post I kept everything relatively short and sweet. Feel free to comment below or on social media about the items that really hit home for you and of course, any questions or thoughts.

So here it goes, 30 things I learned before 30:

  1. Sometimes the best decisions are the toughest ones to make. I’d say for most of my best choices in this past decade, those closest to me second guessed or straight up tried to talk me out of the most epic calls I’ve made. Luckily, I learned the importance of trusting YOUR gut above anyone else’s even earlier on in life.
  2. When in doubt, go for the option that would make a better chapter in your memoir. This has been a hilarious but great barometer for the “should I just hop on that plane?” moments of life and I’ve yet to regret going for the more adventurous choice.
  3. You are not your elevator speech, you are not your job — you are just gloriously you and that in itself is enough without any of the glitter and gold. You will survive past any title that anyone wants to give or take away from you and to the people who truly matter, it’s all just sprinkles on the top of the already amazing cupcake that is you.
  4. You have to know deep inside your being that you are incredibly lovable because no man (woman/lover/etc) will ever be to make you feel that way if you don’t already know it yourself. Enough said, non-negotiable.
  5. Be kind to everyone. See people. Smile at people. You never know how much someone might need that sunshine in the middle of a gloomy day. When in the depths of dealing with my brother’s illness, I’d have a guy hold the door for me at the supermarket because I had two bags in my arms and his kindness would make me tear up in gratitude. The little stuff matters. We all need those micro doses of human love and kindness.
  6. Hearing your own intuitive guidance is 10% of the battle, the other 90% requires you actually trusting yourself enough to listen and having the courage to take some action.
  7. The people who disappoint you need your love and forgiveness the most. This was a tough one for me but I truly have realized that people hurt themselves the same way they will hurt you. We are all our own worst critics and oftentimes our own worse crucifier so you can put down the sword and just send them love.
  8. Pain is part of life but suffering is a choice you make. Sounds a little crazy, right? It’s a game changing decision to decide not to tolerate suffering. It’s amazing how much more effective you can be in handling any situation when you isolate the suffering from the actual pain. I’ve also gotten a lot of time back in my day from releasing it as soon as I see myself going down to suffer town. (P.S. “Stress” is suffering — we’ve just been tricked into thinking it’s normal and necessary. It’s a choice.) 
  9. The answer is always inside. To any and all questions — yes even ones involving big financial decisions– especially those! Trust your inner expert.
  10. The most confident men(or women) will still need your love and compliments to feel their best. Don’t hold back your praise just because they are receiving compliments from everyone else. There is so much magic in the woman he loves (or man she loves) reflecting back to him how wonderful he is. Be a cheerleader.
  11. Don’t be so hard on yourself. No one is perfect. No one is happy all the time. And anyone pretending to be either isn’t real or honest. It’s okay to experience the whole messy human spectrum — it can even be fun if you don’t take it too seriously.
  12. Stop hiding how weird you are because there are so many people waiting to love and connect with your quirky side. You can’t find your tribe if you don’t take off that mask your wearing.
  13. Don’t pay attention to what anyone else is doing, how old they are, how many followers they have or how picture perfect their life looks on social media. Keep your eyes on the road in front of you, listen to your own gps system and you will get exactly where you are meant to go so much faster.
  14. Keep the impossible on the to do list. For some of the greatest things I’ve done, everyone in my life thought I was ‘delusional’ or ‘naive’ when I first put them on my agenda. That lyric, “if you can dream it, you can do it” is actually truer than you may think. (That song also always make my heart explode and tears roll down my cheeks — “I believe I can fly” by R. Kelly… before he got trapped in a closet.)
  15. Release what you thought it was supposed to look like. Focus on how it would FEEL and allow that to be your compass.
  16. “The best thing to hold on to in life is each other” – Audrey Hepburn, call your grandma, tell your parents how much you freaking love them and drive the six hours to hang out with your brother. You will never regret the time you spent with family. They are your greatest treasure (even when they drive you crazy).
  17. Pets are angels sent here to show us unconditional love. Don’t be ashamed that you talk to your dog, cat or fish — I’m pretty sure that you’d be weirder if you didn’t. It’s okay to love them to pieces and it’s also okay to be a hot mess when they pass. Don’t let anyone tell you different.
  18. Best friends are just as precious as family. Being across the country hasn’t made a stitch of a difference in my relationships with my nearest and dearest. Although I miss hanging out in the flesh often, I’m so grateful for regular cross country calls and text threads. They make my life so much sweeter.
  19. Writing a book is more intense than anyone tells you it’s going to be but more rewarding than you could have imagined. Holding this thing you created in your hands or watching someone you’ve never met buy it barnes and noble and email you about how it’s changing their life is never not a surreal moment. One of the coolest yet hardest things I’ve done to date for sure. 
  20. Sleep is a magical cure all. Getting proper sleep will make you a whole new human. 8 hours of solid sleep will allow your body to do what it does best and self regulate and heal. Listen when it wants more, it has work to do.
  21. Honor the seasons of your life, they all have their benefits. Winters and falls in your career or love life allow you to release what doesn’t work, rest up, take care of yourself and get yourself in fighting shape for spring and summer when you’ll be grateful you had that time to rest and reflect before life got so busy and blooming again.
  22. Music is great medicine for the soul. Choose what you ingest wisely but use it liberally in your day. I don’t know what I would do with out it. I have a playlist for almost everything.
  23. No one actually knows what they are doing. There are only varying degrees of pretending like you maaybbbee might. We are all just winging it…(cause that’s what angels do, haha.)
  24. With all decisions, pretend life is a video game and two options drop down from a menu– do X or do Y. The option you’d choose in the video game tends to be what you truly want and the option you lean towards in life will usually be what will ruffle the least feathers or cause less friction. Do your video game choice.
  25. Being sensitive is a super power. My body is so sensitive and often people feel like they should feel bad for me because of it. I actually see it as more of a secret weapon that it’s actually able to communicate to me so clearly what food and products are hurting it or toxic. Even my feelings, which can be intense,  show me the soul aligned answers to most decisions before my mind can even get to it’s rational and logical conclusion.
  26. Always bring your own food for flying. (C’mon – – had to sneak one health one in there..)  Chia seed pudding with fruit and granola (for morning flights) and guacamole or a salad for later flights will always make you want to give yourself a pat on the back a few hours into the your journey. Snacking on my gluten free pretzels and guacamole that I brought from home as I write this on my flight tonight and I’m happy as a clam!
  27. When someone wants to be in your life, they’ll make it happen. Life is too short to chase people who don’t want to make time to see you. Whether it’s a guy who’s not asking you out or a girlfriend who constantly flakes on plans and is hard to reach — let go of the people who don’t care if you are in their life and get to loving on all the fabulous people who do!
  28. Just ask! You never know the answer unless you put yourself out there and ask the question. At the end of the day, regardless of position or power we are all just people. Be kind, courteous but certainly throw your hat into the ring. The Wayne Gretzky quote, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” is a mantra that plays frequently in my head when it comes to making a courageous ask for something I truly want.
  29. It’s a beautiful thing to enjoy your own company. And it’s perfectly acceptable to schedule time with yourself on your calendar, in fact, I highly recommend it. If someone can’t respect that you would rather show up for your pre-planned me time date than go to some last minute party, that’s their problem.
  30. Life is a big amusement park. We are all just riding our own rollercoasters. Sometimes your going to be on the way up and sometimes you’ll be on the way down. Neither is permanent and as long as you realize your on a ride, you can enjoy the whole journey.

 

PS. In true birthday spirit, I also got really clear about where I want to go this next year and what adjustments need to be made. Cliff notes version: Aprecity is shifting to include a facebook group where we can take our community building and support to the next level (keeping it open to the public for the first 30 days so join here if you are curious!), the majority of my focus is going on Eat with Intention! I’m excited to be traveling for more book signings and speaking engagements as well as churning out new episodes of Eat with Intention TV and aligning with a network to help grow the show even further, to make room for this I will only be taking on 4 full time ‘practical magic’ mentorship clients at a time and a la carte sessions when possible based on my schedule. If you are interested in either, visit my coaching page to book a session or get on the waitlist once it fills.

This Tuesday, August 2nd is a very powerful New Moon in Leo that is sure to be a breath of fresh air from the recent rather “gloomy” energetic conditions we have all been muddling our way through. This New Moon brings a wave of love, courage, and wisdom.

The New Moon in Leo is going to give us a boost of energy to create some AMAZING things in our life from a place of love.

I hope you will join us for the special meditations I have curated for it as well as visioning exercises, intention setting and the magic that comes from joining collectively on energetically potent dates.

TO RSVP to come in person or join us LIVE online or via the recording this Monday for my NEW MOON IN LEO Meditation Workshop called, “Creating from a Place of LOVE” Click the link below: http://creatingfromlove.splashthat.com

beautiful words by @iamhertribe

Two weekends ago I had the divine blessing of having one of my oldest friends come to visit me for a long weekend. I’ve known Blair for what feels like eons, or maybe just since Algebra class freshman year of high school, it’s hard to remember. Blair and I have always been a bit of an odd couple, she’s super smart, very practical, logical, was always a great voice of reason during my early dating years when being irrational was pretty much the only station on my radio. Blair is one of those friends I could always trust for the straight answer, even when it might sting, and that is something I tremendously respect.

I’ve always been just a little more “out-there” and wild. Yet, we have always got along fabulously because above all else, we are just really big fans of each other. We entertain each others’ pleasures with an open mind and a lot of love and respect for one another. Needless to say, I was beyond thrilled for her to come see my new home and to hang out.

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We talked a lot while she was in town, we also had a lot of fun hiking, spa-daying, eating at all my favorite places and even dancing at a dive bar in Venice. And then on her last day, she did something that was a total game changer for my life.

 

She showed me how to properly utilize my to do list and calendar.

 

Talk about the ying to my yang — organization and systems are often a foreign language to me. You are talking to a girl who has a million mini to do lists that she writes in various colors of magic marker because they look “more fun” that way, haha. Yet, as I opened up to Blair about what was going on in my business and heard her more corporate, effective, logical ways of executing — I knew it was THE MOST TREMENDOUS BLESSING!

She literally sat with me and helped me organize my calendar and showed me her methods for assigning and completing tasks. She even helped me with certain ways to properly and effectively delegate certain tasks. It was exactly what the doctor ordered and I could not have been more jazzed or grateful about my incredibly expansive feeling new system for getting things done.

 

A pic from Blair's epic wedding a few years ago
A pic from Blair’s epic wedding a few years ago

 

However, the even bigger breakthrough came a few days after Blair left when there I was sitting at my dining room table, staring at my jam packed google calendar and realizing that I had forgotten to schedule something MAJOR.

 

There was no time allotted for my JOY! 

 

I do this exercise, it’s almost like a goal setting exercise but with the kind of person you want to be and so I write out all the roles I’m really passionate about playing in my life. Everything from sister, daughter, girlfriend to health cooking show host, author, mentor, etc. As I was looking through my days, I barely saw some of these important parts of mine on the calendar. It’s no wonder I had been feeling exhausted and depleted the past few months — I wasn’t scheduling in all the things that truly LIGHT me up.

 

Seeing it all there in front of me, allowed me to go in and allocate daily blocks where I do things that JUICE me up, things like mini-workout breaks in the afternoon, writing time in the evenings and even an hour a day where I do outreach on passion projects of mine. Just putting it in my calendar felt like a breath of fresh air.  It also really got me thinking about how I can infuse MORE joy into the tasks that were feeling a little stale, like email, I now play my favorite Spotify station while checking email or just have my assistant go through them while I’m working so it doesn’t feel so daunting for me with the constant inflow. I schedule recipe testing in the middle of computer tasks to get me up and in my element mid-day and I even got a major hit to revise my mentoring program while on this alignment through joy train!


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That’s right.

 

Being in the flow of   J  O  Y  even more than usual opened me up to the courage to truly come out of the closet about what I’m really here to do when it comes to mentoring women one on one. And that is nothing short of magical. 

See, joy/happiness/bliss/flow — they are all different words for the same thing, being in the truth of who we really are. When you are laughing, smiling and enjoying yourself you are connected and plugged in to the real you and that is where the magic happens.

 

For me, this gave me just the push I needed to totally revamp my coaching offerings after taking a few months off from new coaching clients and really dig deep into what I genuinely felt called to share. You can watch the video and read all about that here but in short it made me come out about not only the level of depth I LOVE going to with my mentorship clients (connecting to past lives, ascended masters, angels and ‘peeling the layers off the onion’ to get down to the nitty gritty of who they really are and what they are meant to do in this world as well as gracefully navigating life lessons and creating a life they love) but it also pushed me to introduce a model that you hardly ever see with coaches/mentors because so many people are stuck in “program mode”. For me, my most transformational clients are on-going clients, three month programs are great but they leave us just comfortable enough to wade into the deep end without having fully dived to the depths. So I’m doing something a little crazy, a tiny bit scary but epicly exciting and incredibly joyful — I’m taking on TEN new lightmaker clients for my on-going mentorship program. My rates are more affordable than ever and you can cancel at any time, obviously.

IT FEELS SOOOOO FREAKING GOOD.

I can’t wait to meet these new ladies and hold the light for them as we navigate this path together.

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In summary, schedule in your joy to your calendar because you won’t believe the magic, revelations and ah ha’s that unfold when you spend more of the day in your true self!

And if you think one of those ten spots has your name on it, schedule your introductory call over here because I’m sure these spots wont last long.

 

 

Something funny happened about a year and a half ago, I was working regularly with clients and taking new consultations as they rolled in when I noticed a trend…

 

Women were coming to me because they were ready to start their own heart-centered business and they loved the energy behind mine. They wanted me to guide them along creating a coaching practice or inspiring blog from that same soul guidance that started mine.

 

Well, I had never thought of myself as a business coach, in fact, I’m kind of the anti-business coach. I created my entire business from following my inner guidance, checking in with myself in meditations, connecting with my guardian angels and guides when I needed inspiration or advice and for the most part, just plain old following what FEELS GOOD.

 

Being the “too honest for my own good” person I am, I blurted this out in total honesty not really knowing if I would be the business coach they were hoping for and wanting to just lay it all out on the table before embarking on anything. Much to my delight, woman after woman, sighed with relief and said, “ahhh yes — that’s why I wanted to work with YOU. I knew there had to be a better way. I just knew there had to be something out there that I resonated with, that FELT GOOD, I just don’t feel right about some of the online business and marketing advice out there and I wasn’t sure if that meant I wasn’t cut out for starting my own business.”

I had felt the exact same way when I first started out. Online marketing left a queasy feeling in my stomach (still does) and pushed me away from really going for it till I discovered that I was NOT made for some plug and play formula — in fact, I don’t think ANY of us are.

And just like that was the birth of my some-what under the radar ‘spiritual business mentorship’ practice. 

In the months to follow, I guided them in getting in touch with what they were really feeling called to create, the life they truly felt called to live and how to build a foundation that would support them (and their clients) as their life and business expanded. Stories from the early days of my business often came up on calls, as well as practical advice on getting started with social media, websites and pricing logistics but everything was rooted in what their own intuition was guiding them towards.

I realized that these tools needed to be shared, more people were out there and felt the call to do what truly LIGHTS them up for work — they needed guidance, the tools to find their own unique treasure map and I only had so many hours in the day to work with clients one on one. I got the final nudge from the universe when Gabby Bernstein gave me a call to partner up for her Spirit Junkie Masterclass Digital and offer a bonus curriculum to go along with her training last year.

A few months later, neck deep into working with the incredible ladies in my LightMaker Business Group — I knew I had to REALLY do this. Offer an extensive heart-centered business training AND make it affordable to anyone who was really serious about shining their light and design a life and business from their soul…

It is with tremendous excitement, joy and love that I share this intensive online training with you. It is my intention that it holds you, guides you, and gives you the tools to step into the power of what you are here to share, who you are here to be and a business that LIGHTS you up.

I would love to have you join me on the first LIGHT-filled business intensive journey! 

Here are all the details, start times + pricing below to help you decide if it’s right for you.


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My LIGHT-filled Business Intensive Online Training:

I have been sitting on this for a while now, waiting for the perfect time to share my most powerful practices for creating, running and I am BEYOND thrilled to share these in depth insights that were only once available through working with me one on one in my private coaching program. 

7 powerful videos to guide in tackling the biggest boulders in growing a successful business  + a BONUS video on the Abundance Blueprint + 2 LIVE Q&A calls with me + access to our LIGHT-filled business facebook group!

1. Getting CRYSTAL CLEAR on what your here to share + who you are here to serve.

I will be sharing some of my client’s favorite practices that I’ve walked them through for gaining clarity around what their mission is, how they feel called to share it and getting specific on the people they can help the most with their work.

2.  LOGISTICS – how do I get going? am I doing enough?

So you have the idea, now you have gotten the clarity but where do you begin logistically. If you already have some things up and running — are you optimizing it? In this video we tackle, websites, mailing lists, social media and how to choose where to focus your energy for maximum impact.

3. Getting OVER yourself and getting the CONFIDENCE to share your work.

One of the biggest blocks I have seen with all the incredible women I work with is their level of confidence and comfortability with sharing their message and the amazing work they feel called to do. In this video, I will give you practical tools and concepts to shift your perspective around being loud and proud with your beautiful work.

4. Productivity, FOCUS and making the magic happen.

The thing about spiritual entrepreneurs, and I speak for myself with this one, is that we are so creative, we have great ideas and dreams but it can be hard for us to settle down and put the pedal to the metal on our laptop and actually EXECUTE! I want to share with you my personal tips and tricks for focus and productivity so that you not only move the ball along for your business but also gain the peace of mind that comes from getting more done in less time.

5. Creating a FOUNDATION for your most EXPANSIVE life.

Work-life balance is a real thing. Yeah, it’s great to have a successful business but it won’t sustain if you are not taking care of your home life and replenishing your cup. I share my formula for creating a solid foundation so that you can build your ‘skyscrape’ life and business on it in a way that withholds whatever life throws out you.

6. How to use your INTUITION as a GPS for your business.

People always ask me who my business advisor is, and I laugh, call it God, the Universe, Angels, Spirit, Love, Internal Guidance System, whatever you would like but I take the advice the comes from within whenever it comes to making my biggest business moves. I’m a MAJOR advocate for give YOU these tools so that you can steer your ship successfully long after our work together is done.

7.  Handling the UPS and DOWNS of being your own boss. (and life in general..)

Everyone loves glorifying the entrepreneur life, and I will say, it’s pretty damn wonderful at times but the truth of the matter of it is that it is very much a winding road full of highs and lows. In this video, I give you a raw look at some of my ups and downs and my best tools for navigating them with optimal growth and grace.

BONUS VIDEO: #8: The ABUNDANCE Blueprint: let’s talk money and magic.

You deserve to be compensated for your heart centered work! Repeat that over and over. So often I see beautiful lightmakers doing great work and not making the money they need to support their most abundant lives – I’ve been there! In this video I share with you my 7 steps to shifting your energy around money and becoming a magnet for prosperity.

 

ADDITIONAL BONUS: PERSONAL SUPPORT 

Join me and fellow lightmakers for 2 LIVE Q+A calls with me in August to answer any questions that are popping up to me personally AND discuss where you are at with building your business as well as connect with other incredible people on the same path! 

Be a part of our LIGHT-filled business facebook community to connect with others embarking on the journey, ask questions and share about your Ah-Has and breakthroughs in a safe, supportive place!

 

 

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So what’s it going to cost you?

A lot less than you probably expect. I remember what it was like to start my own business, money was tight and every penny REALLY mattered. Investing in my business FELT GOOD — it was like I was saying a BIG YES to being a lightworker, to creating something I loved and telling the universe “I’m ready! Let’s do this!” — so when I was meditating on what to charge, I asked myself, what feels affordable enough to make happen if I had really wanted it back in those days but enough of an investment that it would really hold me accountable in doing the work, watching the videos and participating in the Q&A calls?

$444 — it was a natural oh yes. Could be paid in two payments of $222 and a tremendous value for the amount of content and support. That felt GOOD.

8 total videos – over 7 hours of footage, musings, tips, tools and guidance that would cost over $1500 in one on one sessions.

2 hour long Q+A calls where you can bring any of your questions as you move through the videos and hear what’s coming up for others would normally run you $500.

Access to the facebook group to connect with others along the journey, share ah-has and support each other — well that’s priceless and certainly needed as a solo-entrepreneur.

All for only $444 or 2 payments of $222.

Are you a HELL YEAH? Is your body all warm and tingly? Your mouth plastered in a smile ready to say a big ooohhh yesssss to embarking on this heart expanding business creation journey!?

Complete payment below and you will receive your welcome email with in 24 hours.

VIDEOS start dropping into your inbox one at a time beginning MONDAY 7/11 + LIVE Q +A calls begin in August. It’s highly recommended that you sign up prior to 7/11 to join the us as we go through the videos, but if you are reading this a little after 7/11, you can enter late and catch up on videos before the LIVE call portion.

Can’t wait to share this journey with you!

xo,

C


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Hi there,

Wow, it feels like it’s been an incredibly long time since I sat down and wrote a journal-style blog post to you all and that’s partly what I’m here to talk about. I’ve been feeling all out of sorts lately, confused, disconnected and not myself, I’m sure some of you can relate with the current astrological conditions a lot of us (I’ve seen it in clients and friends) are going through a period of really pulling back the veils and uncovering our truth under the piles of illusions we have co-created with the world and our environment around us. The past couple months have been bumpy, emotional and cloudy at their worst and full of revelations and self-discovery at their best.

For me, a lot of it started while finishing up the first draft of my book. I had decided to focus more on creating YouTube content while writing the book, testing recipes and transcribing meditations so that I wasn’t too overwhelmed with the amount of writing. Sounded like a good idea, right?

Well I do think at the time it was but what happened post-book writing was that I fell into a place of not feeling like I could replenish my cup. If I was an orange, it felt as if the book had squeezed every last drop of juice out of me. I just wanted to sleep for DAYS upon DAYS. I needed a green juice IV and a tropical vacation.

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Needless to say, I let myself sleep in a few days and drank enough juice to also be cleansing while consuming whole foods and I only half got the pep back in my step. Before I could think about it I was off traveling — which I absolutely adore but also takes it’s toll on me.

I was in New York to lead a meditation at a wellness event, back to L.A. for a couple days to pack and do laundry, off to Miami to see a boy who ended up promptly stomping on my heart right before Valentine’s Day and then back to L.A. for less than 24 hours to process my emotions before hoping on a plane to Barcelona to give a talk at a conference. I snapped on my game face for Barcelona and my birthday while I was there and then promptly collapsed into my bed in tears once my feet were back on California ground. Finished the remaining parts of the book, spent my time healing my heart and accepting the beautiful lessons I had learned in my brief love affair and then headed back to my second home, L.A.X., this time for another work trip to Shanghai. After a week in Shanghai, I flew back to L.A. for a brief 48 hours before grabbing my bags yet again and heading to Palm Beach, FL for the Garden of Life blogger retreat for a few days before flying straight to NYC from there to shoot photos for my book.

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ARE YOU EXHAUSTED READING THAT? Because I’m pretty sure living it nearly killed me.

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I remember being in Palm Beach and laying in my big, fluffy hotel room bed, playing some mantras in the background and just feeling S.P.E.N.T. — literally like each of my individual cells were exhausted. By this point, I began to imagine that if life was like a video game where you walked around with a green “battery” above your head to signify your life force, that mine was in the red danger zone. I desperately needed a recharge. I yearned to just go home and lay on my bed, walk to my beach and reset with the ocean.

Naturally, I called my mom.

Leave it to mom, after hearing me plead my situation, to give me a major dose of my own medicine. “You know, I watch all your videos and read the things you post. I feel like you would tell you to listen to your body and honor what you need to take care of yourself. Might want to do that. I know you don’t want to cancel on people in NYC but just come, do your shoot, change your flight and get back home as soon as possible so you can just rest.” 

She was right. I needed to honor the advice I would give to other people. Listen to your body, take care of yourself, fill up your cup so that it can once again overflow for others.

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So I got myself back to Santa Monica and realized that a few more things wanted to fall apart before the universe was going to let me start picking up the pieces, haha. I was in quite the emotional funk. I was moody, sad, and feeling a bit lost at sea. I turned to the tools that work best for me, I meditated more, found new meditations and mantras that particularly warmed my soul, took bike rides along the beach, sat by the ocean for sunrise and sunset, went to every restorative yoga class offered at a nearby studio and allowed myself to slow down.

Those tools didn’t necessarily change my emotional “weather” but they helped me sustain during it. Imagine a chilling cold front (my exhaustion and sadness) and those tools become the warm blanket, the fire and a piping hot cup of tea. They allowed me traverse the terrain while making it more bearable without numbing myself out from what I had to experience to grow. 

SO where do the revelations come in?

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Alright, alright, before this little novella turns into a full blown memoir, I’ll skip to the juicy part! But before we get there let me just say that I did attempt to get back to business as usual relatively quickly and was confronted with an intolerable amount of distraction. It was kind of like back in High School when you had a crush on a cute boy who you thought might like you so you spent every class doodling on your notebooks his initials and daydreaming about what your kids might look like — c’mon we all did it. Except my deep distractor wasn’t a man (a thank god for that haha), it was THE OCEAN.

It was as if I was YEARNING for the ocean from the moment I woke up.

I couldn’t get a lick done with out feeling the call to go to the beach yanking at my ankles. Of course, after a few days, I finally got the memo and just freaking went down to the ocean. I mean sometimes our distractions are actually trying to communicate with us, that tugging at our core, it’s trying to show us what to do even if we are stubbornly trying to push past it, it will persist until we finally head the call.

There I am, knee deep in the waves, salt water splashing all over my face and chest when it hits me like a ton of bricks. “Stop trying to wear a shoe that doesn’t FIT you.” or rather “Stop living your life (and business) the way everyone says you SHOULD do it, and go back to your original game plan. Go back to what FEELS good.”

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Ouch.

That ocean wisdom was right.

But how could I have let myself drift off course like this?

It didn’t matter. I needed to forgive myself and reroute. Ask myself what I truly wanted to do, how I truly wanted to run my business, create content and be of service to the world. And so I did. I got re-acquainted with my soul desires and released any judgement around them. It didn’t matter what anyone else in the wellness, spiritual, whatever you want to call it, space was doing. They were them and I was me. I’ve always been a little off-beat, kind of quirky, totally magical and the sort of lady who was dancing to music that most of the other people in the room couldn’t hear. I am just me, honestly and imperfectly, I couldn’t be fit into some cookie cutter model for doing things. I had tossed all of my natural, creative ways of operating because I had thought that other people knew better than me. I had forgotten to run certain opinions through my own guidance system and instead felt like just because certain people were older or appeared ‘more advanced’ that I should play by their rules. Well when I looked back on the times in my life where I was most in the flow, when things were at peak highs, I was going on my gut. It’s not that I haven’t had (and still have) incredible mentors to bounce things off of but when things are going swimmingly, it’s because I’m the one ultimately steering the car from my intuition.

So I threw it away. Gave all of it to the ocean, my tears, my aches, the exhaustion and I laid totally surrendered on my blanket, sand beneath me, sun above me – both recharging me from the inside out and realigning me with my own inner compass and reminding me of my truth.  

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Now you guys know I like to be more of a “shower” rather than a “teller” — so while I’m way more excited to have you guys experience the after effects of these massive shifts through the content I’ll be putting forth onwards, I’ll give you just a little bit of a teaser for the sake of this article.

When asking myself what really makes MY soul sing, how do I really love to serve and share, I unapologetically jotted down a few of these things:

I love connecting with people in person. I want regular moon meditation workshops BOTH live and online. I want to take on more clients again after weaning away the past few months because of traveling. Talking to you guys and guiding you through your own path reminds me why I do all of this in the first place.

– I miss writing these journal style posts to you guys and letting you in on what’s going on in my life. I like that I share beyond my comfort zone, being vulnerable makes me feel alive even when it’s scary. I felt disconnected from all of you while only doing ‘self-help’ style vlogs on youtube.

– I want to share my favorite recipes and meditations. I want to bring back the full “lifestyle-ness” to this whole site and mix up the content more. Share with you travel insights and self-care rituals. Have fun with it, stop worrying about what will be popular or not and just put forth what LIGHTS me up.

– I love being on camera, I feel most LIT up when filming a recipe video or tip segment. I want to attract more of those opportunities beyond my own YouTube channel. And I don’t want to feel guilty for that being my truth.

Overall, I remembered that I wanted to put forth the energy to CREATE what lights me up and not allow myself to feel limited or pushed into what comes across my plate or what other people might assume is “the way to do it”. This isn’t a one size fits all life, there is no ONE general blueprint to follow, there is only the GPS system that was installed in each and every one of us so that we could follow our unique path for our life. I hope this article serves as a reminder to you to ignore all the back seat drivers (and influences) in your life and to stick to the navigation system of your soul. I promise you, there is not a hurricane it can not guide you towards safety in.

Thank you for reading, for supporting and I look forward to embarking on this new chapter with you. Please share this article with anyone in your life that you feel could use it and comment below to let me know your thoughts or questions.

So much love,

Cass

 

P.S. Today is the last day to sign up for SJMC and/or my Light-filled business program, so if you are interested, head over here. It is my pleasure to offer both of these tremendous resources because they both fully support you creating a business from your soul, following your unique roadmap and giving you the confidence and the tools to share your authentic message with the world. Details here.

Check out my LIGHT-filled Business Offer with Gabby’ Bernstein’s Spirit Junkie Master Class Digital here: http://www.cassandrabodzak.com/sjmc-2016

One of the most commonly asked questions I get from my business coaching clients is ” how do I get the confidence to share my work with the world?” so I wanted to give you my 3 top tips for getting started and gaining the confidence to be an unapologetic force of light in the world!

Please share this with other closet lightworkers that you know are ready to step out of hiding and shine bright!

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