From Trauma to Triumph: The Transformative Power of Pilates. A Conversation with Jennifer Pilates(Epi.#221)

Jennifer Pilates: Embracing Spirituality, Energy Awareness, and Holistic Approaches for Empowered Living

In this enlightening episode, Jennifer shares her journey of connecting to mindset and energy awareness, discussing the essential balance of spirituality and pragmatism in today's chaotic world. Jennifer emphasizes the importance of following intuitive hits, grounding oneself, and maintaining high vibrational energy through simple everyday practices. She provides insights into the holistic benefits of Pilates, her experiences as a serial entrepreneur, and the importance of authentically aligning with one's true calling. Jennifer also touches on how to navigate through life's pivots and ensure one's business and personal growth stay rooted in core passions. This episode is a must-watch for solopreneurs, spiritual seekers, and anyone looking to integrate deeper awareness and empowerment into their lives.

00:00 Introduction and Warm Welcome
00:31 Holistic Approach to Mindset and Energy Awareness
01:24 Empowerment and Spiritual Grounding
04:58 Intuition and Daily Practices
07:49 Balancing Light and Dark
10:03 The Year of Authenticity
13:52 Pilates and Holistic Healing
23:46 Entrepreneurial Journey and Finding Your Why
26:57 Transitioning Careers: From Yoga to Reiki
27:21 Entrepreneurial Mindset: Going Against the Grain
27:59 Energy and Healing: Understanding Dis-ease
29:23 The Importance of Owning Your Online Presence
30:22 Social Media Strategies: What Works and What Doesn't
32:55 Money as Energy: Embracing Financial Abundance
35:31 Knowing Your Wo

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Shilpa: Welcome, Jennifer. 

[00:00:04] jennifer pilates: Thank you so much. I am so excited to be here with you. 

[00:00:08] I am excited as well, and I am so impressed with your background and how you connected to mindset. And I've just been, uh, aware of you for quite some time now. As you mentioned before, we hit record, that this has been in the works for a while.

[00:00:24] jennifer pilates: It certainly has long overdue, but you know what? Divine timing is a beautiful thing. 

[00:00:29] It is, it is. Well, I think you're perfect. I mean, I have different themes and you would probably fit into multiple themes, but I thought. Given your more holistic approach, including mindset, you would be great for talking about energy awareness and um, just what it means to be in this world as a woman and integrating spirituality while still staying pragmatic.

[00:00:55] jennifer pilates: I know, isn't that a challenge? Like how do you walk that [00:01:00] line and you know, I always work, whether it's friends or family and clients, you know, it is a fine line, but the truth is, is at the end of the day, you chose to come in. At this time, I. And this is a wild and crazy chaotic, amazing time. So first of all, I always tell people, you know, congratulations because you chose this.

[00:01:22] jennifer pilates: Whether you know it or not, you chose this. So you, you're kind of a badass to have picked this time to come in, right? Like, you're already so empowered, you just don't know it, right? And so, your job, my job is to be that beacon of light to help people to shine that light so that they can see and. Feel that empowerment within them and.

[00:01:43] jennifer pilates: When we're in this world and it is challenging, you know, to look at what is going on around you, and that really is the key, is to be a viewer of the movie that is going on around you, because really that's what it is. [00:02:00] It's not what's within you. And that is really something I want people to remember. You don't have to embody everything that is going on around you.

[00:02:09] jennifer pilates: I think it's very important to be aware of current events. I think it's very important of to know what's going on around you. Equally important as to perhaps dim your light, close the shades, and go within and find your quiet time. Find your peace. And that's really what. It takes, you know, you know what it feels like when you are out on the road and people are rushing and let them, you stay in your lane, you go in the grocery store and everybody's grumpy, grumpy, grumpy.

[00:02:44] jennifer pilates: Let them stay in your lane. Keep your peace. You get to choose how your story plays out every day, and it doesn't mean it's easy. I mean, it's so much easier, right? Easier said than done, but you really get to [00:03:00] choose. Are you going to react? Are you not going to react? Are you going to pause and just let them, whatever's going on around you, let it happen.

[00:03:09] jennifer pilates: If you have no skin in that game. Why are you allowing it within your energy field to impede you to upset you? It doesn't make any sense. And so the key in our spiritual world is grounding. I. Grounding is so important, especially if you're an empath or a highly sensitive person and you know, you don't have to go and meditate for hours a day if you can.

[00:03:32] jennifer pilates: God bless you. I want you to, 'cause that's amazing, but that's not really realistic for every day, right? Being here, experiencing this human experience. So ways that you can do it, you can literally raise your vibration. By getting up, dancing around. I just did that before our podcast. I put on some high vibrational music.

[00:03:51] jennifer pilates: I started dancing, and you can just feel the energy shifting. You can shift a room, you can shift your vibration, and that's the key. [00:04:00] You know, it's as simple as taking off your shoes and walking outside. It's as simple as getting into a nice bath, an Epsom salt bath. You know, lighting some sage. There's so many simple ways to shift your mindset by shifting your vibration, right?

[00:04:15] jennifer pilates: Sometimes we get too up here and go, well, how am I gonna shift this? It starts here. It starts inside. It starts with your vibration. And then this kind of catches up, so to speak, because you know your heart and your head, they're two brains, and at the end of the day, your heart is the one that's really in control and is much bigger than what's actually this nugget up here.

[00:04:37] jennifer pilates: And once we really get into that and understand that. I think that it, it really helps people to understand like, oh, so it's okay to follow, really, like my heart is telling me this, yes, your heart, your intuition, the soul essence of whom you are is guiding you. And I want you to lean into that. And so there's things that you can do every day.

[00:04:58] jennifer pilates: Like if you get a hunch to go to [00:05:00] the grocery store, maybe your favorite cookies are on sale. That's an intuitive hit. You know, maybe you have this sense that, oh, I need to call a loved one. That's an intuitive hit. You know, they come in all sorts of different ways. Suddenly you're writing the best novel you've ever written, and all of this information is coming in and you have no idea where it's coming.

[00:05:20] jennifer pilates: That's a beautiful download, a beautiful intuitive hit. So it's all in how I feel. We look at the world around us, we look at what's going on. You can either look at everything as a beautiful sign and part of divine timing in your path unfolding, or you can go, well, this is a little crazy. I don't know about this.

[00:05:41] jennifer pilates: I mean, it's storming outside right now. I could be freaking out, but why? What am I gonna do with the storm? Maybe the storm is to keep me inside so that I make sure I get all my work done, and I have amazing interviews. So it's finding. Balance. Balance in a world that doesn't know balance. [00:06:00] 

[00:06:01] I couldn't agree more.

[00:06:03] And um, when you, you touched upon so many things. A lot of it is also the fact that we live in this world where yes, out outside conditions are often, um, chaotic. And yet we have this divine gift and it's so subtle that. In a world that's so materialistic, it's so easy to miss, and even those intuitive hits you are touching upon it, is there GI giving us those little breadcrumbs leading us?

[00:06:39] jennifer pilates: Oh, I think it's so much fun, right? And some people go, well, what are you two talking about? Well, you know, there's a lot of people that believe that Taylor Swift leaves Easter eggs. Same difference. You can believe that it's an Easter egg, that it's a four-leaf clover, whatever you wanna call it. And the more that you work with it, you are building that muscle.

[00:06:58] jennifer pilates: And trusting, which is [00:07:00] key, right? You wanna learn how to trust your intuition and trust your inner soul. That's where the empowerment within you comes from. And I know this was a great example, so yesterday, I. I was getting ready for some interviews and I was looking for a tank top, and I just said out loud, I'm like, where is that tank top?

[00:07:18] jennifer pilates: And I heard like, oh, it's, you know, here's where it is. So I go to get it and I pulled it out and I went, you know what? How come I can ask where a tank top is? And you tell me Lty split. But if I'm asking for a million dollars or if I'm asking for the new car or the new house, or where I'm moving next, crickets.

[00:07:36] jennifer pilates: You know, and I hear all this giggle, right? And so yesterday was one of those days where I was really. And I think that this is important for people to know, and I think you have this, you know, we don't go through our days always flying high on unicorns. It's just not how it happens to be a spiritual person like you are a warrior.

[00:07:54] jennifer pilates: You have been through the dark, you have been through your dark to understand your light, and [00:08:00] that is. Huge. And that is again, coming back to the empowerment that is within you, that power that's there, and I want you to own that and embrace it and be proud of yourself because you were such a brave warrior for that.

[00:08:12] jennifer pilates: And so. Yesterday I was out and I was fit to be tied. I was having a conversation with God and my angels and we talk like we're besties. 'cause we are besties. And I, the language was flying. I'm crying, I'm frustrated, and within those moments I'm saying, I'm not meaning to bitch, but I'm frustrated and I need you to hear me in this moment in time.

[00:08:38] jennifer pilates: So I get it all outta my system and I hear, do you hear? You know, and do you feel better? And I'm like, I do actually. I feel much better. Thank you for listening. I'm not a negative Nelly, but I needed to get that off my chest. That is so important to honor yourself and honor your feelings. 10 minutes later I was walking down the road and I was guided to [00:09:00] look to my left, and I received a major piece of information that I had been waiting for.

[00:09:07] jennifer pilates: There was the sign and it was huge. And it's kind of something that I had been grumbling about for weeks now from nothing was making sense, blah, blah, blah. And here was this huge sign. And you know what I said in that moment, I surrender, fine if that's what you want me to do. 'cause it wasn't on my radar.

[00:09:23] jennifer pilates: Fine. It is something that involves stretching me because there's a lot of fear around it. There's a lot of stuff. But I'm like, you know what? I'm down. I'm in. Let's do this. So I think that, that I share that because in essence I want people to understand both sides. You are yin and yang. You are light and dark, you are divine feminine, and you are divine masculine in every moment.

[00:09:49] jennifer pilates: You are choosing what you are leading with. That is so powerful and I, I really want people to be aware of that because we've all [00:10:00] been so out of balance for so long. And it's not your fault. It's not my fault. A lot of that is the collective, the world around us of what's going on and the beauty and the timing and the astrology and the energies that we're in now is we have gone from, I, me, me, me, me, me.

[00:10:18] jennifer pilates: To we, to community, to authenticity. And in this year, this beautiful, crazy number nine num numerology year. And if you don't know what that means, please do Google it because it's important to know within this year, this is the year where everything and everyone and anything around you gets exposed that is not of the authenticity of whom they are.

[00:10:43] jennifer pilates: And that includes everything from world events down to your neighbor. Down to you. You are not excluded from this, right? And that is so powerful of how we can embrace who we are and live who we are, and know that it's [00:11:00] okay. One minute to cry, to bitch, to moan, to groan, to release, to let go, to cleanse yourself so that you can open the path for what's meant for you.

[00:11:11] jennifer pilates: I think too long. People's spiritual bypass. Do you know what I mean? Like, they'll be like, I'm so happy and it's so great, and I'm a millionaire and I'm,

[00:11:22] jennifer pilates: I'm all about manifesting and I'm all about a vision board, but I'm also about reality. And the reality is, is yes, you can speak things into existence when you are mirroring the vibration. Because it's not your words that's bringing whatever that thing is, or that person or that place to you, it's your vibration.

[00:11:43] jennifer pilates: You are raising your vibration to become a vibrational match for what it is that you deserve to have in your life. So you can say all the words you can generally want. Both are incredibly important to help you get there. It's another way, it's another tool in your toolbox, [00:12:00] your spiritual toolbox, to help you along the way, to understanding your vibration, to understanding how powerful you are in creating your own reality every moment of every day.

[00:12:12] That is just so beautiful. Um, and yes, we are living in a very challenging time. And then adding the additional, I would say, challenge of maybe being a woman in a world where there's a great shifts occurring. And even if we have, and I, I am speaking at least for myself, with a place of gratitude that there's so many gifts that we've been given in the Western society as women that we can.

[00:12:40] Um, grow, but still we, we are as a collective experiencing challenges. And like you were saying, it's not all unicorns. I mean, even within my daily meditation, which is my bookmark, I will experience challenges, um, of the contrast that's going on [00:13:00] in life 

[00:13:01] jennifer pilates: a hundred percent. Some days your challenge is just gonna be making the time to meditate.

[00:13:07] jennifer pilates: And that meditation could be sitting down, it could be laying down, it could be going for a walk. There's so many different ways to meditate, and I want people to know that too. I want you to find what works for you because that's coming into alignment with you. Yeah, 

[00:13:21] different modalities, um, definitely are part of it.

[00:13:24] Like you were mentioning, journaling, um, or grounding yourself outside with, um, going barefoot, all of those. Now, some of this knowledge though, for many of us. Comes through life experiences or having pivots where we then seek, and then through the seeking, we, we expand further. In your case, can you share a little bit about your journey?

[00:13:52] And I, I am aware that, uh, one of your core, um, skills is also Pilates, correct. [00:14:00] That's right. 

[00:14:00] jennifer pilates: Mm-hmm. 

[00:14:01] And a, you are a third generation Pilates instructor. Mm-hmm. I, I find that fascinating. I love to know how this part of your life, that journey intersects with the more holistic spiritual journey. Mm-hmm. 

[00:14:16] jennifer pilates: Yeah, absolutely.

[00:14:17] jennifer pilates: And so it's a beautiful question. Thank you. And it's a beautiful journey. Pilates came into my life after a traumatic car accident. I was guided down that path as part of my rehabilitation program, and I. Pilates in and of itself is so holistic. I didn't know about it. I didn't know anything. All I knew was I was in pain.

[00:14:39] jennifer pilates: I, um, had severe pain from my neck down to my tailbone. I was in and outta doctor's offices eight hours a day. I mean, it was, it was pretty, it was a big deal. It was lot more intense than I gave it credit for because I was so not in my body, because it was so intense and so Pilates. What it does in Generals at Practice is [00:15:00] Pilates is all about.

[00:15:01] jennifer pilates: Mind, body, spirit alignment. And so it brings you into your body through breath work, through movement, which is a beautiful thing. And so my time through rehab really was so in depth here. I was seeing all of these doctors and neurologists, and psychologists and all of this. And there was one doctor who had said to me at the time, you know, you've never really lived in your body.

[00:15:29] jennifer pilates: And that, that's a very powerful statement to make. And I heard him, but I didn't understand what that meant. And in looking back, I believe that he knew in that moment that if we went to the depths of that, I would've, it would've been too much, right? Like I was dealing with the car accident. That was like a whole nother part of that was a whole nother bag of worms.

[00:15:50] jennifer pilates: So it never went further than that. But what I realized through Pilates was that. I hadn't felt my body. And one particular instance when I [00:16:00] was practicing with my trainer, we were laying down on what we call the reformer, and we were doing about to do a basic movement, which is called footwork. And your feet are on the bars.

[00:16:08] jennifer pilates: And I'm laying there and she's telling me, take a big inhale, exhale. And as I did, the tears started flowing. And in that moment I released. I was in my body and I released so much pain and emotional distraughtness from that car accident. That was my session that day. And that is how powerful Pilates can be when you are with the right person.

[00:16:36] jennifer pilates: You know, just like everything, um, Pilates has changed over the years depending on, you know, where you go and what you take it. I am blessed that through that rehabilitation program I. I was in Boulder, Colorado at the time. In my backyard was the Pol. It's called the Pilates Center, and it is the place to take Pilates.

[00:16:55] jennifer pilates: It's the Harvard of all Pilates programs. And I was blessed that I received a little bit of a [00:17:00] se uh, settlement from the car accident that was exactly just enough to go to that school. Divine. I mean, you wanna talk about fate and divine timing, right? And so I did that. And so I went through the training and the school is so amazing.

[00:17:15] jennifer pilates: I highly recommend it when you come out. It's like going to physical therapy school, but without that certification because that's how in depth they train you on the human body, along with the emotions, along with the movement. So that body, mind, spirit connection. And so for me, in that time. Coming into my body meant that I was really embodying all the gifts that I had, that maybe I had been toying with here or there playing with reading oracles or tarot cards, but it became a whole nother level.

[00:17:46] jennifer pilates: I can look at someone and know exactly what is going on inside their body, you know, call it medical intuitive, whatever you'd like. That, that's part of one of the gifts that I have, which is so amazing because I can really, truly get to the root [00:18:00] cause of someone's physical essence equally as easy as I can to dig into the mindset and into their spiritual essence.

[00:18:09] jennifer pilates: And so that's where the Pilates practice came from. And I was blessed to have Pilates studios all over. And now I have a wonderful virtual, um, clientele practice for now. Everyone keeps asking me to have another brick and mortar, and I say, uh, I am a serial entrepreneur. So I don't rule it out. I never say never anymore because every time I do that, it happens.

[00:18:29] jennifer pilates: Um, but for right now, everything is virtual. So we have classes and on demand, and I've gone really deep into somatic Pilates. Did an incredible four week. I was, again, this was guided. It was a guided four weeks, and it was the most impactful, empowering program that I've ever been through. And here I was doing it to put it out.

[00:18:53] jennifer pilates: So, you know, it's doubly blessed. So Pilates just opened up all of the pores, if you [00:19:00] will. To my body, to my mind, to my spirit, to align me, which then opened up into every session, becomes a coaching slash intuitive session, which then brings a client further and deeper down the road. To me, my energetic healing abilities come out, whether that's through the reiki or whether that's through my words, because it's both ways, you know, it's really is the gateway.

[00:19:24] jennifer pilates: Into this beautiful, spiritual, holistic world that I'm in now, and I love to have other people come and play in my world because it's just such a beautiful healing place to be. 

[00:19:36] It sounds like your path to this, while it's tragic, they had to go through an accident, it is such a blessing because, um, it gave you a very powerful gift that you are now, it's a tool.

[00:19:52] So to speak. Mm-hmm. A tool where you may have had all these other gifts, but then you bring this and you've [00:20:00] experienced it in the moment you've gone through the pain. So then now when you apply it to help others align physically, it's more than just physical alignment. It's, it's deeper. 

[00:20:12] jennifer pilates: Oh, it's much deeper.

[00:20:13] jennifer pilates: I always say, you know, even this conversation right now, there's healing energy. There's just, and I've had so many people say this to me and I didn't realize it. I always thought it was when I was physically with someone back in the day, 20 years ago. And what I have, you know, come to learn over the times is it's my voice, which was why I was guided to do a podcast, you know, and started three years ago.

[00:20:33] jennifer pilates: I didn't even know what they were. It's because of what comes out of me. In, you know, conjunction with the energy that I have. And that's that healing ability that helps people to release what's going on, to give them those aha, those aha moments to help shine a light where they need it. And the way in which that I'm been gifted, as you say, to be able to do these things is in a [00:21:00] very, if you will, normal way.

[00:21:03] jennifer pilates: Whereas if someone were to come for me. For Pilates training. They may not come to me for a Reiki healing session or for an intuitive coaching session. They may not do that or a reading right, but coming in and getting to know me and feeling safe and feeling secure, and then going, Hey, how did you know that?

[00:21:23] jennifer pilates: You know, that's that way that a lot of people need for their healing to be able to have a safe, comfortable way. They, oh, Woody, I'm gonna do Pilates. So much more than Pilates, so much more. It was never just Pilates. And so many of my clients will say that. They're like, oh my gosh. It was, it was never just Pilates.

[00:21:44] jennifer pilates: And that's, that's that main, I guess you would say. That's my superpower, that's my, my special gift when it comes to my Pilates. And you know, I do take it for granted sometimes, and I've had a friend of mine say, Hey, you know, again. When are you gonna come, you know, come back out to [00:22:00] Cali and, and open up a studio, you know, I've got space for you.

[00:22:02] jennifer pilates: And I was like, ah, you know, there's so many pil. He's like, they're not Jennifer Pilates, they're not you. And it was so special. And I looked and I'm like, oh, like you forget who you are sometimes and you forget. That's your journey. Like that's part of your mission. That's part of your why you're here and you can get pulled off track, you know, and you deviated more so.

[00:22:26] jennifer pilates: 'cause you're never really off track. You can, but you can deviate. But it's important to know, and that's also something that I work with a lot of my clients with, especially at the core, is who are you? Why are you here? What is your mission? What is your life path number? Like, what is all the stuff so you understand why you're here so that when you're suddenly hitting roadblocks, you'd be like, oh yeah, I must have taken a detour.

[00:22:48] jennifer pilates: Let me get back on, uh, let me get back on the highway. And I've done that. I've taken lots of de I'm like the detour queen. Um, and uh, yeah, it's, it's [00:23:00] fun. And then like, 'cause especially being an empath and a highly sensitive person, like, I wanna help everybody. Like if you're like, Hey, can you help me do this?

[00:23:07] jennifer pilates: It may not be in my wheelhouse, but I'll be like, oh yeah, I'd love to help you. But I have learned over the years that that doesn't serve me to say yes to you, because then it pulls me off what I'm here to do, even though I can do it and I wanna help you. So I think that that's something really important for people to understand and learn too, is why are you here and what is your mission?

[00:23:29] jennifer pilates: And let's get that done. Like, let's be mission orientated. Because you are that female powerhouse that's here. You are here for a reason. What is it? And let's get to it. Because there's a lot to get to get done, especially in this year. Right. 

[00:23:46] Well, and you just, um, you just expressed so many things. I had like a billion questions floating my head or comments.

[00:23:53] One of them is, many of my audience members are women. [00:24:00] Um. Perhaps even solopreneurs themselves or those that are seeking to pivot. And I feel like one of my missions, it's because of my life experience, is to really, um, nurture the journey of pivoting and finding your voice and finding your why. And I feel like you touched upon in so many ways, and I just w would love for you to.

[00:24:28] Go a little deeper in that because like you were expressing earlier, and I'd love to go back to that, that you are a serial entrepreneur and that, uh, while this amazing, um, work is being done around Jennifer Pilates, but you've got other gifts, but how do you hone in on it and how do you know when to pivot?

[00:24:53] jennifer pilates: That is a great question, and I would like to say that that will always be. A learning curve throughout each [00:25:00] of our lives, because every time we change our vibration, you might be pivoting, you might quantum leap to the next timeline, and a lot of people are doing that right now. I would say that you receive hunches much like if you're driving down the road and you're like, oh, I really feel like I need to turn here.

[00:25:19] jennifer pilates: Take the turn. Don't not take the turn. 'cause we all knows what happens when, when the universe is leaving you little nuggets and you're not, you're like, nah, nah, nah. And then all of a sudden in comes the earthquake and you're like, sugar, I should have listened. Right? Um, the pivots are, the pivots are like a juggler.

[00:25:38] jennifer pilates: And sometimes like you're like, I am a badass. And look at me juggle these three things and this is freaking phenomenal. And then one falls and you're like, Hmm, what happened? You know? And for me. Pilates is always at the mix. At the core. This is what I've learned and it's taken me a while to learn this.

[00:25:55] jennifer pilates: By the way, Pilates is sort of like the one ball [00:26:00] that's gonna keep everything else in, in line and going, but that's the core of my essence. It's the core of who I am, the core of why I'm here. And then there's my intuitive readings. There's my coaching. I have an active wear line that's still on pause from Covid, by the way that was there.

[00:26:19] jennifer pilates: But there's been lots of different times where I leaned one direction, leaned more in one way than the other. And that was based on who was being guided to me. Where I was at. But the Pilates, yes, has always been at the core, I would say you're always gonna have a foundation and we wanna keep the sound, the the foundation solid.

[00:26:41] jennifer pilates: Now, sometimes you're gonna be like, Ugh, I need a break, and you're gonna lean more over here. That's okay. But you still have to keep the strength in somewhere. Maybe that's the core of, of your programming. Maybe that's the core of how people know you and what you are. So you can't forget about that either.

[00:26:57] jennifer pilates: Right? You know, maybe someone may go, well, I [00:27:00] don't even wanna be a yoga instructor anymore. I just wanna like let it go. I just wanna do reiki. Okay, well let's make a plan for that so that you are guiding your people along the way and maybe we're easing out and easing into, versus I'm not doing this, I'm doing this.

[00:27:18] jennifer pilates: I've made that. I've, I've done that. That's not, that's not brilliant. Um, but I also am the type of entrepreneur who. I, I'm just a black sheep all around. If everybody's going right, I'm going left. That's the easiest way to say it. I don't believe in how people tell you to market on the internet. I don't believe in how people tell you to use a social media.

[00:27:40] jennifer pilates: I don't believe in any of it. I believe in what I'm guided to do, and even when it doesn't make sense, I do it. When I do it, I see the best results based on who are suddenly, whom is suddenly being guided to me. I never went out and looked for a niche I never niched down. There are [00:28:00] times in my life, yes, seniors are guided to me, people that are injured, rehabilitative people, because rehabilitative people, and think of it this way, this is a really easy way.

[00:28:10] jennifer pilates: Anytime you have a dise in your body, a pain point. Regardless if that's from an accident, from a fall, whatever it is, it's highlighting an area in your body where something has gotten stuck energetically and emotionally that has not been dealt with in the past, and so it is now coming out as a dis-ease.

[00:28:34] jennifer pilates: Now we wanna catch it. Ideally at that point, if we do not, it becomes a full-blown disease. And so everything comes back to the energetics, right? Everything comes back to energy. We're all energy and we're mostly water. So we really have to tune into that and remember that and that's how you stay in flow with your business.

[00:28:52] jennifer pilates: I know that sounded like I went to a weird place, but like that's how. Say, 'cause I have, I've gone really far [00:29:00] to the left and I've totally just been like, that's it, I'm, I'm just gonna do Intuitive guy, you know, readings for a while. That's what you know, there's gotta be the balance into whom you are and what you're called to do.

[00:29:13] jennifer pilates: And so the pivots, there's no perfect pivot. The key is listening to you though. And putting on horse blinders and not looking at what everyone else is doing. I tell people my business went down horribly. So during COVI, because I was on social media, I wasn't on social media before then I had a website and I had referrals.

[00:29:36] jennifer pilates: I. I had a newsletter, and that's what I would tell people. Like if you have a business, if you wanna have a successful business, you do. I don't care what anyone tells you. You want to have a website that is your real estate, you own that. No one can take that away. You want to have an email list that is gold.

[00:29:55] jennifer pilates: Every email on there that's worth a dollar 46, whether you realize it or not, it is. [00:30:00] And you wanna get people on that. So figure out a way to do that. Utilize what you need to utilize. You don't own any social media platform. You own none of it. So your goal is to get them off of it, and your goal is not to spend time on it, especially looking at the other people that are in your industry.

[00:30:22] jennifer pilates: And that's something that people actually told you to do, right? Oh, follow the people that are in your industry, because those people will, mm-hmm. Now you're looking at Sally who's doing the same thing, but Sally might be skinnier, taller, prettier, and she's living in Malibu and you're in New York City.

[00:30:40] jennifer pilates: Well, you can't compare an apple to an orange. And I have, I'm saying this because I've made this mistake, like social media, it's so crazy, was like a downfall to my business. Complete downfall. So, but I will say this, for me, social media to me is Facebook, Instagram. [00:31:00] X, um, that stuff. YouTube is a searchable platform.

[00:31:05] jennifer pilates: It's an SEO. Use it Pinterest. Women use it for your business. If you just do those two, you're at a gold mine. If you just pick one and you really figure out how to do it, you are at a gold mine. You don't have to do the other ones. And I know somebody, somebody's like freaking out and having a panic attack that I just said, that you don't have to, and you don't have to spend a lot of money and you don't have to hire 12 people to do it.

[00:31:36] jennifer pilates: I haven't, I've made tons of wonderful, uh, failure falling forward. That's why I like, you know, failing, falling forward, that's the thing. But when I do things my way. People are attracted to me. Do you know how many emails I get every day from people who go, well, your YouTube channel doesn't have blah, blah, blah.

[00:31:53] jennifer pilates: And I'm like, I'm learning, but I'm still getting people. It's people are attracted [00:32:00] to you and your energy and what you bring to the table and what you light up. That's the key. I love that. 

[00:32:09] You know, I have a newsletter called Amplify Authentically, and it's all about just your uniqueness. And while I'm a social media strategy, um, advisor, my advice to everyone is often that you're leveraging off of that and maybe picking one or two that works for you and being strategic.

[00:32:29] Mm-hmm. Spiritual, it doesn't mean we can't be savvy, strategic women. 

[00:32:35] jennifer pilates: No, and I, you know, it's interesting, I did come across this gal on Instagram and I have all the platforms because you kind of have to, right? Like, I don't like to, but I have to. And I came across this gal and she was so smart and, and she said it very eloquently when she was like, if there's any spiritual person that tells you it's not about the money, they're full of it.

[00:32:55] jennifer pilates: It's not true, because here's the deal, money is such a high [00:33:00] vibration. That's all it is. It's a vibration. You are meant. To attract everything that's in your heart. If it's in your heart to be a millionaire, zillionaire, billionaire, it's there for a reason. Get on your path and be strategic because while everybody else has following everybody else, and the day that comes when everything falls, because by the way, I've been guiding my clients for.

[00:33:25] jennifer pilates: Eight years now about why they need to get their people off certain social media platforms, because they're not going to necessarily be there in some way, shape, or form. I can't explain that part of it, but I can just tell you like, oh, I can't wait. I'm so excited. Um, but the thing is, is it is about the money.

[00:33:50] jennifer pilates: Money is energy. It's about energy. If you have all the energy in the world, you have all the time in the world. If you have all the energy and all the time in the world, you probably have a lot of money in the world so that [00:34:00] you can service more people. If you have more money, we can hire you. And then I can say you be strategic.

[00:34:10] jennifer pilates: I don't want to be, I'm creative. Awesome. But money. Important. It's the energy. The paper means nothing. It's the energy of it. And I want you to get excited about it. 'cause when you get excited about it, then you get into this higher frequency, this amazing vortex of it, and then it just starts coming to you in all sorts of different ways.

[00:34:34] And just to add to that point, which is something that I, I know you're in your heart, probably believe and practice is that that is not to say that the intention is not set. Mm-hmm. It's not to say that a service oriented mindset is not there, but even then we need to be savvy. 

[00:34:53] jennifer pilates: We need to know your worth, right?

[00:34:56] jennifer pilates: I watch so many, I see so many things, and I do, I still get [00:35:00] caught up in watching stuff. I'm not gonna deny it, right? But I leave it to at night. In lieu of like watching a trashy TV show, which I do by the way, because that's how I zone out and that's how I just let everything go. By trashy, I mean anything on Bravo.

[00:35:14] jennifer pilates: 'cause I love it. Um, it's just my, it's my thing. But you know, when you can just sort of look through certain things and you can raise your vibration and you realize your worth. I feel there are so many spiritual people that don't know their worth. And I remember I did this thing one day and I can't remember who she is.

[00:35:40] jennifer pilates: I had her on my podcast. But anyhow, it, it, it was like a, a mindset kind of thing. And she was like, why are you so mad? And I'm like, I'm mad because all these spiritual people aren't charging enough. She was like, are you sure you're not mad, that you're not charging enough?

[00:35:54] jennifer pilates: And I thought I was. And we went through this whole thing and there was this huge number that I wanted to be charging. [00:36:00] But I'm not at a vibration for it yet. So I can put it out there, but it's not gonna do diddly, but I can work with it to get there, right? So I challenge people. If you're at a hundred dollars an hour, put yourself up to $150 an hour.

[00:36:18] jennifer pilates: How do you feel? Is there no difference? Then put it up to $200 an hour. Now if you're like, woo, doesn't feel right, drop it down to 1 75. Okay. That feels, you just work with the vibration of money and it's that easy. So, and, and I say this 'cause I did that. I, I put some numbers out there and I was like, I'm not ready for that yet.

[00:36:44] jennifer pilates: It's, I couldn't, I couldn't magnetize it. Right. I. And I think that's so important in being honest with yourself and knowing that, but then coming to find a happy medium. Then I went lower and I started laughing and I'm like, if I go lower, I'm doing everything that against the grain of what everyone else is doing.

[00:36:59] jennifer pilates: And I'm like, [00:37:00] but I know what's coming in the world. So I slept on it and then the next day I heard, mm-hmm. Pull up a little smidge. I did, and I was like, that's perfect. So it's realizing and playing, and it's in those easy moments that you're shifting your mindset, you're shifting your vibration so that you can become a match for the vibration of the abundance that you're trying to call in.

[00:37:28] jennifer pilates: The other thing behind this, if you really wanna kind of play with the universe and kind of be strategic, is I'm grateful that I'm serving thousands of people every day. Every month, every day might freak people out, say, every month. Don't say how that's not up to you every day. So I'll say like, every month, I'm so grateful.

[00:37:48] jennifer pilates: So grateful. Every month I'm serving millions of people. Guess what's gonna follow millions of people If that's only a dollar a person. And you have millions of them. That's millions of [00:38:00] dollars. So if you're someone who is so uncomfortable still around money, one, I want you to know we, we've got some work to do, but we'll always have that work to do and it's okay.

[00:38:10] jennifer pilates: But now, you know, work around the who are you gonna serve and how do you wanna serve? You wanna serve millions of people. You wanna serve a hundred people a day, a hundred people a month. Find a number that you're comfortable with and start working with that, because when the people come in. And you're probably more, um, maybe comfortable at first to, to work with the energy of pulling in people.

[00:38:31] jennifer pilates: Then the abundance is gonna follow. So I always say I'm a backdoor girl. I'm always gonna find a different way to come in for myself to make things happen and for everyone around me. 

[00:38:44] I just love the way you articulated the, um, manifestation part of it in the sense that, um. You manifest something that you are aligned to that energetic vibration too, and that is true for.

[00:38:59] [00:39:00] Beyond just the financial flow part of life, which in and of itself when you are a female solopreneur, a solopreneur. It's, it's, for me personally, it is the most challenging phase. 'cause the talent I believe in, in it, I, I believe in the skills and the challenge, but then coming from corporate and pivoting and knowing that back in corporate I was.

[00:39:24] Like you were describing, I'd be, I'd pick the number, I'd pick the job, and I would have all of it flow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But in this new phase in life, that's, that's a new, um, challenge. And I know a lot of my female friends have outright told me, oh, what you're doing is brave. But I could never do that. I couldn't leave corporate.

[00:39:47] jennifer pilates: 'cause they don't want to. It's too easy. It's too easy to say. And, and we're at a time and a place collectively where when we come across people like that, we just let 'em, [00:40:00] just let them. Because if somebody isn't on that path already where they're getting, you know, antsy. Like, God, I would love to do that, but I'm kind of scared that person still wants to do what is ready.

[00:40:11] jennifer pilates: But somebody else, Betty Lou, who's just like, I could, but I could. No, she doesn't really wanna do it. She really doesn't. She's really kind of, she's really waiting for the guy with a million dollars just to like tell her to stay home. And there's nothing wrong with that either. I want people to know there's nothing wrong.

[00:40:29] jennifer pilates: That might be what's in Betty Lou's heart. There might be a reason for that with Betty Lou, but for some of us. It. It, it deadly says, in my human design and in my astrology chart, that all of my work and my mission on, on this world and in this lifetime many ways is to be a disruptor, is to do things differently.

[00:40:52] jennifer pilates: All of my work comes from me, and when I think about the first half of my life that was in corporate, and even [00:41:00] most recently, you know, about six or seven months ago. I had a girlfriend who tempted me because I get tempted with business and was like, there's a new opportunity. Do you wanna come? You know, play for a little bit.

[00:41:11] jennifer pilates: And I was like, woo. Okay, so what just happened? I did it. And you know, the universe was like, we'll, we'll let her do it for a short period of time, and then all hell broke loose. And then it was like, no, the party's over. I don't play well with others. I play with like if we work together. But that's different than being in a corporate nine to five.

[00:41:33] jennifer pilates: Like I'm not part of the so-called matrix that 3D world. I left that world so flipping long ago, and I'll tap my foot back in and out. But now it's so repulsing to me. I can't even, and I struggle to be around people that are so engraved in it still. I, I just, I can't, I, it just, and I'm, I'm being very challenged.

[00:41:59] jennifer pilates: I'm in an [00:42:00] area right now where it's just like. People are so robotic. Like, I work from nine to five. I do, I pay my taxes, I do this, I do that. And I'm like, no. What do, what do you mean they're spraying the skies? You must be crazy. No, my food's fine. There's no chemicals in it. And I'm like, oh my God, where am I?

[00:42:19] jennifer pilates: I'm like, God, I can't. I can't like, 

[00:42:22] no. Like I just love the, there are so many things again, you said, I was like, oh, she's nailing it. The matrix. That is such a, that's the analogy that goes through my brain. On a almost daily basis. Now, before we part ways, 'cause there's, I could talk to you another hour, but there's like one or two key things I want my list of course, to tune into is that your business, Jennifer Pilates, like you said, if there was a Venn diagram or diagram of some type, the central di um, node is the Pilates, but you are allowing yourself to then connect to other.

[00:42:58] Skill sets [00:43:00] and what I'm trying to encourage others that know your, that gift. That the gift, right? 

[00:43:06] jennifer pilates: So the gift is, and I did this a long time ago on a piece of paper and I challenge everyone to do this. The gift is you, so I'm in the center. And then like what's my main line? Pilates, and then what do, what are the other things I like to do?

[00:43:21] jennifer pilates: But what are the top three? Because I also like, you can't spread yourself too thin. And I've done that and that doesn't work. So can I do three things and be successful? I can, and I've done it. I've done my clothing line, my Pilates, and my readings, and I've. Like made bank and I was really good at it. And now just saying it out loud, I'm like, oh, now.

[00:43:39] jennifer pilates: And my mind is like, in the back of my mind is going like, oh, should I like, ooh, you know? Uh, um, know that you're at the core of it. Know whatever your passion is, what truly lights you up the most. And I know for people, they're gonna be like, everything lights me up. No, everything doesn't really light you up.

[00:43:58] jennifer pilates: What really [00:44:00] fills your soul and makes you feel so good. If that was the only thing you could do for the rest of your life, your time here on Earth, which could be a day or 300 days, who knows what is that one thing and then based off the other, that one thing, other things will make sense. And so, yeah, so that's why I, I always say like, welcome to my world.

[00:44:21] jennifer pilates: It really is my world and do you wanna come play in it? And my world changes just like the real world changes. And you know, one day I might be harping on one thing and then the next day it's, you know, gonna be something else. But yes, you can have your, make your world on your piece of paper and then it's, think of it, it's a different kind of manifesting board.

[00:44:40] jennifer pilates: I still have my original one and I can literally check off. I haven't been successful necessarily in all of it, but I've done it all. But it shows me what really was an alignment and maybe just wasn't, it wasn't the timing, or it just wasn't the thing. 

[00:44:57] That's wonderful and a couple of [00:45:00] tools you mentioned.

[00:45:01] Um, we could even come back one day, you know, on a future podcast and go deeper. Sure. But, um, human design is one of my new passions as well. For the last three plus years, I've been diving deeper into it, and I've just created an AI. Chat, GPT, prompt for women entrepreneurs that integrates somatic awareness and human design.

[00:45:22] So you can be guided. So I'm super psyched if you ever wanna come back and go deeper in that. Yes, mention something, that's another passion. Mine is somatic awareness, and that's another thing I guide my clients on is what if you could somatically become more aware of your potential client? So you're tuning into their their 

[00:45:43] jennifer pilates: journey.

[00:45:43] Hmm. 

[00:45:44] jennifer pilates: Right, because the key is, and, and, and like you, the human design, oh my gosh. Like I just did human design for myself and the colors of my business. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like I was just so excited. The somatic part of it is just [00:46:00] so amazing, and so it's just so integral. And again, it really just comes back to knowing who you are and if knowing who you are, which is your human design, which is your blueprint.

[00:46:11] jennifer pilates: Like, why would you not wanna know about yourself? You wanna know about your car, you wanna know about your iPhone, but you don't wanna know about you. You'll hold the keys to you. You truly do. Your whole life could be so much easier if you just knew that every left was not the way to go. Don't you wanna know that?

[00:46:31] jennifer pilates: Oh, I mean, it's just like next level. Like I, I love that. I love the numerology, I love the, I love it all. And it all has an awareness and a place to it. I love what you're doing. I think that's phenomenal what you're doing. I'm so excited for you. 

[00:46:47] I'm so excited. Um, just talking to you, I think there might be an opportunity for collaborating on any one of these, um, micro projects.

[00:46:55] 'cause there's just so much knowledge. Such a great. Timing, like you were [00:47:00] saying, the shift is occurring. I just attended a human design summit recently and they talked about the big shift in the next 20 years. 

[00:47:09] jennifer pilates: Oh, it's huge. I mean, but you know, I do wanna bring people back a little because what is about to unfold the remainder of this year and into just the next three years?

[00:47:24] jennifer pilates: Like I, I know like with Covid and everything, the world completely changed. It's gonna make that look like a cakewalk, so. We, I really want people to be aware of your surroundings. Are you really where you wanna be geographically? Are you really around people that you feel that Like, if I don't know, all heck broke loose tomorrow, is everybody gonna band together?

[00:47:48] jennifer pilates: Or do you have people, do you have hoarders around you who aren't gonna take care of you? Like these are the things, it's like depending on where you live. So you lived in Florida, I'd be like, do you have your bug out bag? Do you know what to do in case of a hurricane [00:48:00] in California? Do you have your bug out bag like.

[00:48:02] jennifer pilates: On the East Coast, do you all have a bag because y'all need to get a bag? Like there's so much changing Europe. I mean, I could just go through 'em all, but it's like I want people to be excited because there's so much changing and evolving, but I want people to stay in the now. I can't even, I mean, and that the, like the blessing and the curse, like I can't even go 30 years right now, knowing of the next like two.

[00:48:28] jennifer pilates: Two to three years, like 30. I'm like, wow, that would be amazing. 30 more years. You know? And the other thing is too, in saying that is there's something that I like to, like really ground people's energies. 'cause we've kind of been all over. But to ground everyone back, and I'll be honest, so I'm in my fifties.

[00:48:49] jennifer pilates: Gosh, I forget how old I'm gonna be in May. But anyways, let's just go with 50 'cause round numbers and I'm not a good mathematician. I always say, unless we're talking $1.2 million, I'm not talking about it. So we're just gonna go round numbers. [00:49:00] So 50, 

[00:49:00] are you Aries? 

[00:49:01] jennifer pilates: What? Aries? No, Taurus. Taurus. My birthday's coming up and I'm an Aries.

[00:49:08] jennifer pilates: Yeah, there you go. So, you know, so, um, say I'm 50, if I'm lucky, I maybe have 30 more summers. 30 more Christmases, 30 more birthdays. That's if I'm lucky. So I really am grounding everyone. I want everyone to look at your age. What do you think you're gonna live to? Now, I do have people that live really old in my family, but the reality is, is I'm saying this because I want you to understand how precious you are, how precious every moment is, and how precious your breath is, and I want you to use them wisely.

[00:49:48] jennifer pilates: Because you, us, collectively in the matrix in the world, have been taught like tomorrow. Tomorrow, no, today. Today. Call out to her and get your strategic marketing [00:50:00] today. Call me if you need something. Do it today, because a week from now your future self is gonna be so happy and thankful for you.

[00:50:11] Absolutely. Absolutely. I am so grateful for that. Um, summarizing and we may need to do a intuitive slash strategic thing together one day in the near future. 

[00:50:21] jennifer pilates: I would love to. I'd be honored. I would love to. 

[00:50:24] I would love to as well. Well, Jennifer, I am so grateful for you, your energy, your talent, and um, our friendship.

[00:50:32] jennifer pilates: Thank you. I am too, and I'm so grateful we finally got to do this today. This was such a beautiful blessing. 

[00:50:38] Oh, such a blessing. Have a really lovely day. Thank you. You as well.