Mystic Monday's Grace Duong on Entrepreneurship as Peak Shadow Work
We couldn't be more excited to have Grace Duong on the podcast today musing with Michelle on entrepreneurship as deep soul work. Grace shares her journey in designing the Mystic Mondays app, creating the Mystic Mondays Crystal Grid Deck, and how she dances between the liminal, mystical, and physical realms in her personal life and business.
Grace Duong is the artist, author, and founder of Mystic Mondays, a modern & vibrant tarot deck and app turned brand on a mission to empower you to discover your inner magic.
Covered in this episode:
What it takes to birth a physical product
The process of creating mystical decks
Bridging the gap between the technical, physical, and the mystical
What it's like to be a generator in human design and run your own business
Being a woman in tech and the journey of building a tech product
Creating a business is the best self-development you can do
Celebrating the small wins and intentionally showering yourself with love
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Grace Duong is the artist, author, and founder of Mystic Mondays, a modern & vibrant tarot deck and app turned into a brand on a mission to empower you to discover your inner magic.
Grace's entrepreneurial and creative spirit continues to build the vision of Mystic Mondays with new updates to the app and continuing to create new decks like the Mystic Mondays Crystal Grid Deck which was released in December 2020, and the Mystic Mondays Cosmic Creatures deck in 2021 with Running Press / Hachette.
It's just a constant thing. You know, when I started my spiritual journey, I was always like, "When is this going to end? Am I there yet? Is this over?" And it's the same with business. If you get to a certain level, you just keep evolving and you keep growing from there. - Grace Duong
Building a business I feel like is soul evolution. It's just so confronting on so many levels. If you want to keep going and level up in a sense, you have to face your fears, whether it's your money blocks or showing up, or letting yourself shine or all of these things that may battle those limiting beliefs that are inside of you. If you don't confront them, it just becomes a pattern that you can't escape until you finally confront it. - Grace Duong
I was always a go-getter. I was always hardworking, but to a point where I would feel constantly burnt out. If I'm being completely honest, I still deal with that. I'm learning to better manage my energy, but I'm finding that the more that I take care of myself, the more that I can honor when I need to switch off. - Grace Duong
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SHOW NOTES
[00:14] Topic for today is bridging the gap between the mystical and tangible
[00:24] Grace Doung is the founder of Mystic Mondays. The visionary behind the Mystic Mondays Taro Deck and Crystal Oracle Deck
[05:00] Michelle shares her Mantra for this month. Slow down to speed up
[07:30] Grace shares that creating Mystic Mondays is her way for self-healing and it takes her a lot of commitment and dedication
[12:00] If you want to do personal development quickly, just start a business. It’s the easiest way to learn about yourself and your shadow
[13:11] For Grace, building a business is like a soul evolution, it confronts you on many levels. You have to face your fears whether in terms of money, letting yourself shine, and many battles that limiting beliefs that are inside of you
[18:11] Grace shares her story on how she started on Tarot deck cards and published her book
[25:45] Michelle’s question: Do you feel like whenever you create something new, it’s like giving birth experience?
[26:05] Michelle’s question: What do you do after finishing a project or achieving success? Do you wind down or celebrate?
[29:15] If you don’t have meaning behind your actions, you end up feeling hollow. Whereas if you know your intentions and significance in doing these things, it feels more empowering
[29:51] Michelle’s question: How does it feel when you get a little out of alignment or out of practice with your spiritual tools? Does that ever happen to you?
[31:31] People shouldn’t limit themselves on what they can be. Being a businessman or businesswoman and can be also ultra-spiritual
[32:05] Society often wants us to hold one identity, but the truth is we never do
[32:20] Michelle’s question: Do you feel like you fit in or feel at home in this space? Or you feel an anomaly because you balance both the business mind, intellectual mind, and the mystical?
[38:52] Michelle’s question: Do you consider yourself a Witch?
[43:20] Michelle’s question: When you create decks, do you do research like reading other decks? What’s that creative process like for you?
[43:56] Mystic Mondays in general are very friendly, positive, inspiring, motivating, and very colorful. Grace believes that color has a huge presence in healing people. She wanted to infuse color because the different frequencies carry different vibrations
[45:55] Michelle’s question: Outside of your decks, do you have a favorite deck that you love to use or that you’re loving right now?
[49:27] Outro of the Podcast.
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