How To Build A Successful Conscious Business Infused with Ancient Wisdom with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI
Katie Hess may be known for her flower power message with her flower elixir company LOTUSWEI, but behind the soft beauty is a powerhouse conscious leader.
After spending 12 years transforming people’s lives with one-on-one flower elixir therapy consultations and seeing astounding results, she knew she wanted to bring it to the next level to impact millions of people.
That’s how LOTUSWEI was born. Today, she’s disrupting the industry with her creative intuitive approach to events and content strategy.
We discuss:
- How Katie helped me get comfortable in front of the camera for the first time in my life
- Translating ancient Tibetan practices into the modern world
- Using social media to stay connected to your mission and the impact you’re creating
- Conscious leadership and what it has to do with honest communication
- How plants and flowers are an accessible way to reconnect to nature
- Do flower elixirs still work if you’re a skeptic?
- Transitioning a successful offline business onto social media
- How the intention of joy can be the most important element of creating a successful conscious business
- How shifting our awareness can expand our perception of reality
- How growing a business is like a spiritual path
- How choosing to not do trade shows and organizing her own out-of-the-box Flowerlounge events was the best business decision she made
- Don’t let “I should know more” stop you from doing what you love. You can figure out anything!
- The power of being present without pressure to change
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Mentioned in this Podcast:
- Flower Power Photo Shoot that I had with LOTUSWEI – see the result of our flower and crystal mandala collaboration here!
- LOTUSWEI Angelica Flower Elixir that I’m using
Connect with Katie Hess:
- lotuswei.com flower elixirs
- Flowerlounge Events
- Flowerlounge Podcast
- LOTUSWEI Retreats
- @lotuswei and @iamkatiehess on Instagram
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- kseniabrief.com
- Instagram @ksenia.brief
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- TikTok @ksenia.brief
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About Katie Hess:
Katie Hess is a flower alchemist and the founder of LOTUSWEI, one of the world’s leading floral apothecaries. After 15 years of independent research of flower and plant-based healing, her flower-powered community is thriving in over 15 countries. Her transformative elixirs having been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The LA Times, Sunset, and Organic Spa Magazine. A lifelong spiritual seeker, Katie has studied meditation and mindful-awareness techniques with several Tibetan Buddhist masters, including the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa, Tibet’s next generation leader. Choose the flowers you’re most attracted to and find out what it means about you at: https://www.lotuswei.com.
Quotables:
“Joy over hustle.”
“Do the wild ideas. Go for it. You can figure out anything.”
“Doing what brings me joy has had the biggest impact on my business.”
“Your body is like an orchestra. Taking flower essences is like tuning up the instruments that are out of tune to return to our natural state of joy, love, compassion and peace.”
More about Flower Essences from LOTUSWEI:
What are flower elixirs?
Flowers are the part of the plant used for the collection, because they contain the highest concentration of energetics within the plant. A flower elixir is a solar infusion of that flower in water, which can then be preserved and stabilized with alcohol. After several dilutions it can be taken internally or applied externally to enhance specific states of mind and over time, catalyze insights related to the teachings of that particular flower.
How do flower essences work on our body?
Flower essences work through the acupuncture meridians of the body. They are the subtle but powerful energy of a plant that we cannot see or hear, stored in a bottle. When we take them internally or apply them externally they immediately travel throughout our own energy system, removing static and tuning any energies that are out of tune.
It’s similar to turning the radio station to precisely the right frequency or wave so that the music comes in clearly and beautifully. We cannot see the radio waves in space, but they’re everywhere–think about it: every car can turn on their radio and tune into a variety of stations. The same is true in nature in terms of invisible waves with specific music. Each plant and flower has a particular energy that emanates from it that has a tremendously healing and harmonising effect on our bodies.
