Your Finances ≠ Your Worth: Magical Practices for Pricing Yourself and Your Services
Episode Description
If you're listening to this podcast, you've probably also been told at some point that how much money you're making is a reflection of your self-worth. We're here to tell you that just ain't true. It's hogwash, in fact. Today Michelle and Wallis are talking about the energetic exchange of work, and how to price yourself, services, and products. We dig into the mindset shifts for financial health and also some really fun mystical tools that can help you determine what to charge for your services and when.
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Building an altar to the spirit of money and not worshiping money, but honoring its spirit and what it, all the complexity that it holds for us can be a powerful way to sort of open up another portal when it comes to your pricing. — Michelle Pellizzon
"If you raise your self-worth, then it's easy to name your price and ask for your worth". I don't think that those two things necessarily go together.
They've been told that their value or their worth is related to the dollar amount that they price themselves at. That is just not true. Like human beings are not products. You're invaluable, as a human being.
Put yourself into the future, close your eyes and imagine what it would be like if you're halfway through producing this course, or halfway through working with a client, or halfway through teaching a workshop or writing an ebook. What's going to be worth it for you when you're really in the weeds?
I think that people say this a lot in the wellness space or in money mindset conversations of, "the reason that you're not making money is because you have low self-worth or because you don't think you can make money." We need to acknowledge that, that's just not true. There's systemic oppression that exists that keeps people in a poverty state.
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If you want to dig deeper into the conversation around money mindset and financial tools, check out "Money Myths, Heartbreak, Weed Stock and Spiritual Awakenings with Morgan Blackman" where Morgan Blackman, an Intuitive Wealth Coach digs into dispelling sneaky money myths. Morgan shares her journey of becoming a self-made financial wealth coach, which stocks she invested in first, how breakups can be wake-ups, and tangible steps that we can take in order to achieve our desired financial goals and actualize our dreams.
SHOW NOTES
[00:00:06] Podcast begins.
[00:00:26] Notion is the software that we use to run our business.
[00:00:36] We're going to talk about some wellness.
[00:00:39] Takeout vs. not ordering takeout vs. food delivery. People have changed their eating habits throughout the pandemic.
[00:02:00] Michelle and Ethan had their first dose of COVID vaccine.
[00:02:48] Michelle shared an article she read entitled, “Why are we choosing vaccines like they’re toothpaste?”
[00:04:14] It's time to go out and get your vaccine.
[00:04:49] Gwyneth Paltrow launched goop kitchen, a food delivery service. They also do goop detox, and meal plans and programs. They've been promoting other programming outside of theirs, such as Sakara Kitchen.
[00:05:10] Cloud kitchens have popped off in the last year, where a brick-and-mortar space is no longer a requirement. Just have a kitchen where you can make the food.
[00:07:09] They got into sex toys recently. They promote a double-sided vibrator.
[00:08:17] Eva, the founder of Mod, has been really focused on genderless sex toys.
[00:09:20] Dakota Johnson as a celebrity co-creative director, is like a level up of endorsement.
[00:11:16] When you are thinking about taking on investment, you want to think about what your investors can do for you beyond just being capital.
[00:12:28] An article in The Atlantic talks about the effects of the late-stage pandemic brain --- which is, if you're feeling burnt out, it's because we're all going through collective trauma, and we're all walking around with some mild cognitive impairment because of everything that's happened in the last year.
[00:13:03] If you're wondering why you can't stop flipping over to Instagram, and you can't send an email, don't be so hard on yourself.
[00:13:55] The movement towards sobriety, and gearing away from caffeine, are some of the themes next month for The Cusp.
[00:16:19] Another thing that will be interesting is how we transition back into socializing more.
[00:17:05] A lot of us were expecting that we just have this one big day where everything opens. Everything's back to normal and it's all good.
[00:17:26] It'll be one piece at a time which is better.
[00:17:52] We're talking about energetic exchange today.
[00:18:10] Michelle asked: What do you think of when you think of an energetic exchange?
[00:18:13] “The first thing that comes to mind is when I did energy exchange at a yoga studio.” – Wallis
[00:19:05] You have a job that doesn't pay you enough to afford other things - that's a good example of an unfair, energetic exchange, or an unequal energy exchange.
[00:19:49] Energetic exchange doesn't have to be equal. It doesn't have to be even, and it doesn't have to be fair.
[00:20:07] Most people have so much difficulty pricing themselves.
[00:20:18] It's not that they don't have self-worth. Those two things don’t necessarily go together.
[00:20:34] Self-worth is important, but it doesn’t make it easier to price your services or your products.
[00:20:43] In general, there’s a taboo against the topic of money.
[00:21:00] There are so many families that don't talk about money for so many different reasons.
[00:22:52] Pricing yourself is remembering what your value is, and what you bring to the table.
[00:23:15] You're not just someone who is disposable, not just a contractor that people can hire and then go hire another person on Upwork. You are getting hired for the work that you do, for the service that you provide.
[00:23:43] We give our power away by low-balling ourselves.
[00:24:02] There are a lot of people that inflate their prices because they've been told that their value or their worth is related to the dollar amount that they price themselves. That's just not.
[00:26:00] There's an energetic exchange behind everything that we do.
[00:26:33] The Four Pillars of Intuitive Business: Growth, Revenue, Retention, and Impact
[00:26:59] When I offer something, maybe what I get back in return is I'm deepening my impact and there might not have a monetary or financial value to it. – Michelle
[00:28:09] Not everything that we do is related to our revenue.
[00:30:14] Your pricing does not have to be static, and it doesn't have to be so rigid.
[00:32:54] Frustration and resentment --- do you normally feel that when you're not feeling valued in a project or you're not getting paid for your value?
[00:35:25] Figure out how to make the energetic exchange work again.
[00:37:30] You want to have all of your energy behind the number that you say, and you want to be able to also have integrity in yourself when you say it out loud.
[00:37:52] People can sense if there's something off. You can't fake it till you make it. You really have to believe in what you're saying.
[00:38:00] You can ask the Akashic Records, and they will give you a really clear number.
[00:38:46] If I'm like having self-doubt, I'll go to the pendulum and pen. - Michelle
[00:39:00] Michelle discussed how to program a pendulum.
[00:40:27] You can ask the spirit of money or the spirit of abundance.
[00:41:13] As Carolyn Elliott recommended, build an altar to the spirit of money.
[00:41:37] Not worshiping money but honoring its spirit.
[00:42:11] Muscle testing was discussed in one of the North Node classes on Inner Child Work with Carolyn Coleridge
[00:43:00] Look for more evidence: talk to Akashic records, talk to the pendulum, ask the spirit of money, and pull some tarot cards.
[00:43:22] You must acknowledge in yourself what you are afraid of. And usually at the root of it is rejection.
[00:44:04] We're not saying that people in poverty create their poverty through their mindset.
[00:44:48] There's systemic oppression that exists that keeps people in poverty.
[00:46:37] You get to choose what you want. You get to choose your destiny and your faith.
[00:46:46] You can choose to be someone who makes good money and who gives back to others.
[00:47:00] Your identity is in your control. It's not in the control of society to tell you who you are and how you're going to be.
[00:48:26] A lot has to change systemically because it isn't right.
[00:49:07] Maternity leave in California is one of the best in the country, which is three months.
[00:50:27] Michelle and Wallis sharing their thoughts about how long a maternity leave should be.
[00:51:42] That's part of why we should be spiritual people and people who are advocates for others.
[00:52:11] We have the opportunity to create new systems and change them from the inside out.
[00:52:34] Over everything that we've gone through, we're coming to the end of that. We're getting back into a state of more normalcy.
[00:54:05] If you don't like the way that things are right now, you get to choose a more creative, more aligned, and more intuitive path for you.
[00:54:27] Just because everyone else is doing it one way doesn't mean that you have to do it that way.
[00:55:33] Outro of the podcast.
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We might be having less sex with each other, but that doesn't mean we're not experiencing ✨pleasure✨ Goop recently dropped a new double-sided vibrator (never forget the exploding, "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle of death) which honestly, sounds a bit messy? but interesting that they're bullish on sex toys.
And our fave Maude just launched a non-binary vibrator for all bodies.
Speaking of Goop, the company just announced Goop Kitchen, a food delivery service. It's a smart move (GP and the Goopy kids have promoted various outside "Detox" food delivery vendors for years) and one that's no doubt been accelerated by the proliferation of cloud kitchens during COVID times.
Don't feel bad that you can barely focus long enough to write one cursed email these days. "We're all walking around with some mild cognitive impairment," says a neuroscientist of the effects of late-stage pandemic brain. Collective trauma, what a ride! chugs cod liver oil for brain health
**The Atlantic**
Inner Child Work with Carolyn Coleridge