G&G Q&A 3. - Kay Gillard

10 Quickfire Questions in 10 Minutes- Kay Gillard

1. Express your purpose.

I am a shamanic healer and teacher. My passion is to support other healers & spiritual seekers so they can walk their path with joy, confidence and power.

2. How would you sum up graceful business practice?

Serve with integrity. Remember to honour your needs as much as those that you serve. Always let your intuition lead. When you get stuck, reach out for support - serving your community is a two-way street!

3. Name your three favourite green and graceful businesses.

Lendrick Lodge in Scotland.

Mooncup.

Conscious chocolate.

4. Name three green and graceful practitioners whose work has inspired you.

Sandra Ingerman - Shamanic practitioner and author

Jim Graywolf Petruzzi - Sanctuaries of the Earth Mother

Corrina Gordon-Barnes - You Inspire Me

(top 3 of my current list, but I have quite a few!)

5. Name one environmentally friendly action which you are committed to and wish everyone else did too.

I wish people would open their eyes and hearts, and think about what they buy. The greatest political power we have is whether or not to give money to companies who disrespect people, terrorise animals and pollute our planet.

6. What would be your top tip for entrepreneurs starting out?

Make sure you really love what you do. All the other, practical stuff is important, but your life will be joyless if you don't utterly love and believe in your work.

7. What would be your top tip for people who feel stuck in their business practice?
Connect with the spirit of your business to find out what it wants you to be doing - it can get you past the 'head' stuff and move you in the direction that is in resonance with the very soul of your business.

8. What is the number one thing you wish all businesses/entrepreneurs would do to make the world a better place?
Believe in community, not competition. The more people working in the way we work, the better - it means we can change the world quicker!

9. In your experience, what is the most helpful and positive way to view money?
I'm still doing a lot of healing around this! My life is better when I view money with pure gratitude, as it is an expression of the earth supporting me on my path.

10. We've just time-travelled into the future - what does business look like in your ideal world?

The sheer insanity and short sightedness of ripping resources from the world and causing harm to get ahead in the short term is gone. We are only producing what we need. Business operates in harmony with the earth, and its communities.

Kay Gillard is a shamanic practitioner and teacher who works to support those who walking a healing path while keeping it real. She teaches a modern, practical and down to earth approach to shamanism - it's about reconnecting with true, inner power and it's for real people living in the real world. Her passion is to help everyone on the healing path to become more powerful, and to honour and support their unique spirituality through her writing, workshops, mentoring and online broadcasts. 

To follow Kay's free weekly 'Power Talk' videos and other great resources, visit her website and sign up to her mailing list: www.kaygillard.com

G&G Q&A 2. - Corrina Gordon-Barnes

10 Quickfire Questions in 10 Minutes - with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

1. Express your purpose.

To help people receive a healthy living from following their passion. To help good people earn good money doing good work.

2. How would you sum up graceful business practice?

To be authentic and in integrity, which naturally makes you unique and a beacon for your right clients. To be honest and find your sense of safety from an unconditional Source, rather than looking to clients or money to bring you safety (and then, paradoxically, the clients and money flow easily in). 

3. Name your three favourite green & graceful businesses.

Tibits, Lunapads and Alternatives are just a few. 

4. Name three green and graceful practitioners whose work has inspired you.

Mark Silver @ Heart of Business. Tad Hargrave @ Marketing For Hippies. Jac McNeil @ Jac McNeil. Again - just a few of the many I have the pleasure of knowing.

5. Name one environmentally friendly action which you are committed to and wish everyone else did too.

I've been vegan for 12 years - for so many reasons (compassionate, ethical, health, environmental). It feels wonderful and I get so excited about vegan-serving businesses.

6. What would be your top tip for entrepreneurs starting out?

Identify your Tribe. That group of people who are looking for a solution to their challenge/unhappiness and who your passion provides a solution for. Get to know that Tribe intimately so you offer exactly what they are looking for and are happy to pay for.

7. What would be your top tip for people who feel stuck in their business practice?

To have heart-to-heart half-hour conversations with people in your Tribe. Find out what it's like for them (to be in pain, to be frustrated, to be seeking some solution) and hear in their words what they're looking for, so you can offer that through your business.

8. What is the number one thing you wish all businesses/entrepreneurs would do to make the world a better place.

To find ways of getting past our fears to serve the people we can help. Our gifts are not for us; they come through us to help others, so it's our duty to market well and to make ourselves visible and to allow the kind of money to flow to us that means we can keep doing this most important work (and not return to stifling jobs which waste our time).

9. In your experience, what is the most helpful and positive way to view money?

It's an energy that Source is wanting to flow to us and Source can only do this through other people, just as our gifts are from Source and flow through us to help other people. So our job is to allow, to stay in flow and enjoy being that channel. To receive gracefully.

10. We've just time-travelled into the future - what does business look like in your ideal world?

Everyone is doing what they're passionate about. There's this beautiful interconnection between people's needs being met by others' offerings. People are utterly fulfilled in their working lives and there are so many services readily available so there's relief for anyone feeling unhappy, stuck, frustrated or in pain. Healing abounds. Life is made easy for us all in this way. 

Corrina Gordon-Barnes is a self-employment and marketing coach who helps talented people around the globe enjoy the impact and income they deserve. Author of “Turn Your Passion to Profit: a step-by-step guide to getting your business off the ground” and expert blogger, she is passionate about people making good money doing their good work. She is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC) and lives in Cambridge, England. For more and to buy the book, visit: http://youinspireme.co.uk