Can you please introduce yourself and your current role or business?
Hey, I’m Emma, who I am is I Am, what my soul calls me to do is expressed in a multitude of ways, and although there are many paths you can take, to make the best choice, you only need to listen to your inner-voice. Right now, Emma podcasts, has published a book on poetry, holds space for the full spectrum of what it means to be human, offers thought partnership, mentorship and facilitates meditation as part of her practice “Returning Home and To Your True Nature’.
Emma, with her business partner Serena, provides practical and emotional support for industry leaders, CEO’s and their teams with their business, Workplace Wellbeing Partnerships. In all of these expressions, Emma believes that the human experience is a process of remembrance and re-discovering who we are. Her personal mission is to know and experience unconditional love in all its forms.
Her wider intention is to create space for herself and others to feel the challenging emotions that are often avoided and suppressed. Emma’s philosophy is that all of our emotions and circumstances are here to serve and guide us into a deeper, more intimate connection with ourselves and our lives.
What inspired you to pursue a career in entrepreneurship/business?
From a young age I had the desire to feel fully free, I wanted to live by my own schedule, create what excited me in each moment and do what I loved. Entrepreneurship was a inevitable path to fulfil this desire. The inspiration came, not only from my own intuition, but witnessing evidence around me that this was no just a pipe dream, but a reality that many people had also chosen. I think there’s something about entrepreneurship that’s in your blood, it’s not for everyone, but those it’s for, feel it strongly, yet, don’t always have the resources, confidence or evidence that they can follow that feeling. For me, it was, and still is, very much about trial and error. Trying different things that sparked my curiosity.
What were the key factors that contributed to your success?
To me, success has not been something that I can show you in how much money I’ve made or clients I’ve worked with. My version of success has been a lot more about who I’ve become as a person. The way I now, navigate and see the world. I believe the by-product of this will be outward-success, but I don’t place seeing myself as ‘successful’ in what I create physically. I see myself as successful, because of who I am. The key factors to come to this experience of what success is, have been, choosing to stay in circumstances that may at first feel uncomfortable, like starting as an entrepreneur and continuing on the path, even when other people may not understand what I’m doing.
This has compounded into a huge amount of resilience. Taking time and space for myself, and in this space doing things that I love, bring me joy, help me relax and rest. Learning to listen to and follow my intuition and to stick with that no matter what. Self-awareness and self-reflection through regular journaling. Not trying to be positive or change how I feel, instead being honest with how I feel and feeling those emotions or thinking those thoughts.
Allowing it to be messy and fun, to not take things so seriously when they don’t work out. To keep creating for the joy of creation rather than for the outcome of it. A curious mind rather than a growth orientated mind. To move at my own pace and to take action from intention. To let my ‘doing’ emerge first from who I’m being.
To keep taking steps even if I can’t see and through uncertainty. To choose the approaches that feel safe and sustainable, and take leaps when it feels exciting. Not to look at what everyone else is doing as something to follow or compare myself against, but to celebrate their path. To love and learn from failure. To not limit who you are in what you create, but to expand it. To find your own unique way and work with the people that celebrate that way. Creating a structure that I can flow inside of. Learning to listen to my body. Movement and lots of time in nature.
Can you share your proudest achievements or milestones in your career or business?
I honestly think my proudest achievement would be the person I’ve become. But self-publishing my poetry book is pretty close.
Write one piece of advice you would give aspiring entrepreneurs or individuals looking to succeed.
Decide from the inside that you’re already successful, then whatever you do, even if it appears to be a failure, will feel and be a success.
6. In one sentence, how would you define success?
To me, success is not a stamp of approval to say that you’ve made it based on what anyone has said, but, is something that you feel from inside and then live from.
Interview by Jawad Araf Khan
