Embracing Sobriety and Redefining PR in a Conscious Business World
with Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham is here to share her profound insights on impostor syndrome, authenticity, and the intersection of emotional connection with entrepreneurship.
As we delve into her journey of self-discovery, including her use of human design and her commendable two years of sobriety, Ashley unfolds her story of transformation and how it's informed both her personal identity and professional philosophy.
During our conversation, we explore key pivot points in Ashley's career, pivotal moments of transition, and the conscious choices that have led to her standing out in the crowded publicist arena. We also touch on her sobering realizations from a medium reading that shed light on past life chapters and how this renewed consciousness has impacted her work and client relationships.
So, whether you're an entrepreneur facing self-doubt, looking to create a stronger emotional connection to your work, or just seeking a dose of inspiration, listen closely as Ashley Graham offers valuable advice, a fresh perspective on PR, and an invigorating reminder of the difference conscious living makes in business and beyond.
About Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham, Founder of The Conscious Publicist, advocates for purpose-driven businesses and their potential to create positive change. With a deep belief in the power of storytelling, Ashley and her team are dedicated to helping clients build meaningful connections and relationships. She considers her work's "people relations" aspect to be vital in fostering a more conscious and sustainable world. By guiding clients in developing the necessary practices and strategies to align their connections with their goals, Ashley aims to shape a future where conscious living is the norm.
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About Aleya Harris
Aleya Harris is the spark for your spark™. A trailblazer in purpose-driven story crafting, she is a former marketing executive and ex-Google Vendor Partner who brings her dynamic experience to her role as the CEO of The Evolution Collective Inc. Aleya is a StoryBrand Certified Guide, international award-winning speaker, and the host of the award-winning Flourishing Entrepreneur Podcast. Her unique approach as a Strategic Storytelling Consultant has revolutionized the way businesses communicate, transforming workplace cultures and market positioning. With her dynamic energy and proven methodologies, she guides clients to unlock their potential, articulate their radically authentic stories, and achieve unparalleled success.
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Aleya Harris [00:00:00]:
Are you consciously moving through your life? Or are you unconsciously moving through your life? Here's a check for you. What was the last thing you ate? What did you eat for dinner last night? How about three nights ago? When was the last time that you consciously made a decision to feel good no matter what? When was the last time that you consciously decided to shape your internal and external identities? Well, I'm not here to shame you. Conscious shame you or not, but just to provide you some thought provoking questions and to present to you the conscious publicist Ashley Graham, who advocates for purpose driven businesses and their potential to create positive change. You can only create positive change if you are moving through life consciously. And Ashley understands that. And that's who is our guest for this episode. She has a deep belief in the power of storytelling.
Aleya Harris [00:01:09]:
So you know that she's a woman after my own heart, and she's dedicated to building meaningful connections and relationships. In this conversation that I get into with Ashley, she gives you tips from a publicist perspective, from a media perspective, and she also gets incredibly courageous and vulnerable in sharing her own life pivots and how she has consciously navigated them so that she can make more meaningful connections of her own. So if you are wanting to be a little bit more present, a little bit more aware, a little bit better at navigating your past, present and future experiences, then, my friend, this episode is for you. All right, let's go.
Yuliya Patsay [00:02:05]:
Welcome to the flourishing Entrepreneur podcast with Aleya Harris. If you're looking for actionable ways to stand out from the crowd by standing in your power, you've come to the right place. Each week, we help you and your fellow empire building entrepreneurs become radically authentic and tap into your unique story to attract your ideal clients. Listen in and learn how to use energy alignment techniques and tried and true marketing strategies to transform from a leader to a legend. And now, your host, powerhouse story, brand certified guide, award winning marketer, bioenergetic business coach, and japanese whiskey lover, Aleya Harris.
Aleya Harris [00:03:00]:
Hello. Hello, Ashley. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Flourishing Entrepreneur podcast. How are you doing today?
Ashley Graham [00:03:07]:
I'm doing fabulous. Thank you so much for having me.
Aleya Harris [00:03:12]:
And I've introduced you. I've said the bio so that people know all of the brass tacks, but in your own words, in a couple of sentences, tell us who you are and what you do.
Ashley Graham [00:03:24]:
Yes. So who I am and what I do, I'm going to first lead with what I do because I think it's so much easier to lead into that right so I am the founder and the publicist of the conscious publicist. The conscious publicist is a PR and media relations concierge dedicated to raising awareness around conscious leaders in organizations. I have been in the PR and media relations space for quite some time now, and one of the things that I love most about that space is the ability to highlight incredible voices who stand behind very influential change and progress and initiatives of where they're wanting to see just conscious elevation in their communities and the audiences and who they ultimately serve. And that directly connects to who I am. Like, I am definitely the conscious cheerleader behind who I work with, but then also who I'm connected to. I just love people. I love connection, and I love conscious conversations that does inspire connection and change within other people.
Aleya Harris [00:04:30]:
I'm a big fan of who you are and what you do, but you've said some vocab words. You didn't think that you did, but you've said some vocab words that we're going to break down. And they don't seem like vocab words to most people. The words I'm talking about are publicist media training. Let's just start with those two, because I don't want to get too convoluted here. And they're vocab words because I feel like they mean different things to different people. So can you please break down when you're in your role as a conscious publicist, what you actually do, and the same thing when you say media and media training, what that actually means?
Ashley Graham [00:05:08]:
Absolutely. I'll start with publicist. And I feel I always have a different answer when I get asked, what is the definition of a publicist? Because as you said, everybody has their own definition. And from the traditional sense, a publicist was very much the hard hitter, the person who was out at events, representing their clients or representing events and whatever it was that they were representing or advocating behind. But I feel that the role of a publicist has definitely modernized in today's day. That publicity and being a publicist, or even focusing in the PR public relations space is, it's basically standing behind how you want to be recognized, how you want to be known, and basically facilitating initiatives and doing the work and the things that ultimately bring that recognition to the forefront. So a publicist to me, is somebody that obviously follows the processes, the nature of the work. But in me, in my perspective, especially where the conscious publicist comes to play, is it's also kind of living within the narrative of being consciously driven and ultimately standing behind something that serves a greater purpose.
Ashley Graham [00:06:24]:
And then the second word that you mentioned, you mentioned media training. And I had kind of led into the media relations part of that. And I feel that media training can fall underneath that media relations umbrella. But it's basically working with media professionals or media platforms and media outlets to build a very holistic, conscious relationship and partnership with them to bring awareness around the stories, the clients, the organizations that ultimately are being represented by a publicist or a PR practitioner. But there also is the other kind of interpersonal skills that come within that. That's where keywords like media training kind of come into the conversation and understanding how you need to communicate your ideas and how to build conscious relationships with the people who are ultimately going to bring that story to the forefront through that platform, and basically just leading with relationship at the core.
Aleya Harris [00:07:27]:
Thank you so much. I love to make sure that everybody that listens is on the bus. And I feel like a lot of people either thought they were on the bus and they were like, oh, no, I wasn't on the bus, or they had lost us from the beginning. So now, hopefully, we are all on the bus and we understand what we're talking about. I love that you underscore your conversation with relationships. And for me, a relationship is between you and someone else, or you and another organization, but the relationship actually starts with you and you, your relationship with yourself. And I know that you are used to working with other people, most likely dealing with their relationships with themselves first, especially when you're talking about increasing their visibility. So it's my job to turn the lens on to you.
Aleya Harris [00:08:28]:
So if you were counseling yourself and you were talking to yourself, what limiting beliefs would have come up in your conversation with yourself that you are needing to overcome and tell us then how you have overcome them or your plan to overcome them in the future?
Ashley Graham [00:08:48]:
Yeah, it's actually a really good exercise, and I'm going to lead with just the relatability with this exercise into how I basically take on a confidence coach with clients sometimes, because the impostor syndrome and the question of who am I to gain visibility in this way or get featured here or have recognition here is very natural, especially when it comes to thought leadership, especially if somebody's also starting in the very early stages. And I've had that question come to my own mind, my own consciousness a number of times over the years and probably will continue for the next 1015 plus. I think it ultimately is a very humanizing question, and it's just part of the human experience that we always have these anchor points to check in with ourselves to be like, okay, well, who really am I in this moment in time? And how do I need to transform parts of myself to show up for others or to show up for myself? I want to make sure that I'm kind of staying on track with ultimately the exercise there. But I guess like thinking about a workshop part of that, especially if I've been the person who have experienced that or struggles with it for myself, is one. Just recognizing, again, that it is a very human emotion, it's a human question and it's very natural. Honoring and recognizing the emotion that comes with it and honoring and recognizing that point in time and when I need to retransform or evolve through that process, but then ultimately come back to a place of also recognition and knowing that it's not something that's going to last forever. And so this is where leading in with just self awareness and self reflection are big components. I think when it comes to the interpersonal skill sets of thought leadership and visibility, it's the things that you don't often hear in articles or people talking about thought leadership online.
Ashley Graham [00:10:51]:
But there really is this journey of what a person needs to transform through in order to have the courage and the confidence and the clarity to show up for their own expertise and show up for who they want to be known for. I've been through that a number of times, different phases, and again, I'll probably still have more phases to go, but that's where, again, leading back to the relationship part of it, it also just builds and strengthens the relationship with the clients of who I'm working with because I'm able to put myself in their shoes. And they know that I understand their pain points and the transformations that come with this work because I have been through it a number of times.
Aleya Harris [00:11:32]:
I love it. So talking specifically about you, then you talked about self awareness as a key, and I totally agree, it's the foundation for everything. If you don't know what the heck is going on with you, how do you know where you want to go or where you are or anything? So using self awareness, how would you, as Ashley, realize that you are moving away from yourself, away from your radically authentic self, away from the you who is the best version of you, and then how do you come back into.
Ashley Graham [00:12:15]:
Oh, okay, speaking vulnerably here, I can always leave with just, that's one of.
Aleya Harris [00:12:20]:
My biggest skills, is just, I mean, we haven't even gotten into the most hard hitting questions yet, Ashley.
Ashley Graham [00:12:25]:
Oh my me. Well, ok, I guess I've gone through a recent experience with this and.
Aleya Harris [00:12:40]:
To.
Ashley Graham [00:12:41]:
Make sure that I'm staying in a very linear path with what I want to say, because I don't want to ramble. I have a tendency to ramble sometimes, but I always want to make sure that everything has its anchor points and its connection. So when I know that I'm kind of getting pulled away from this authentic way of creating, it is when I am overly stressed or over worried about processes and strategy and following the norms of what other experts or what other people say are part of the process to have success or transformation or whatever the circumstances may be. But it's like going back to that self awareness part and that self reflection is, I know what works for other people will not necessarily always work for me because I have my own dna, I have my own blueprint, and I'm going to use human design as a point to kind of bring connection to that. So I'm a projector in human design, and I'm also emotional authority. So it's like, you're a rare one.
Aleya Harris [00:13:48]:
Projectors are rare. I didn't know I was sitting next to someone. I mean, I knew you were special.
Ashley Graham [00:13:53]:
But my goodness, I've actually really learned a lot about human design recently, especially, like, the theme of this year for me. And the more that I learn, the more that it's like, wow, okay, I know me and who I am because I've had past, present, future relationships with myself, right? But it's like finding a concrete way to better understand that has been significantly impactful. And this is where I always come back to human design as a way to kind of express that. So going back to the emotional authority part of it, I know that when making decisions or showing up or whatever the action part of it is, it needs to be emotionally connected. I need to feel emotionally secure, emotionally safe, emotionally supported. All of the ways that emotions help me lead in these areas. I need to feel connected to that emotion. And I've acted through that in multiple different ways of not necessarily honoring the emotion part of it, but then mostly kind of figuring out exactly how leading through the emotion part of it has transformed in my life.
Ashley Graham [00:15:06]:
And it's really interesting to see the differences between the two. When I have made decisions that I did not feel emotionally connected to, there was always something that brought this precipice to the forefront of, like, I probably should not have done that. I probably should have taken a step back, listened to my intuition to see how I energetically and emotionally felt about it. But when I leaned through the emotional activation of it. And then I realized, just, like, how expansive it is or whatever had transformed and manifested through that experience. It's way more in alignment with me and just how I operate. So again, I'm trying to bring this back all full circle, going back, no.
Aleya Harris [00:15:48]:
Media trained response needed. It's whatever is coming out of you is perfect.
Ashley Graham [00:15:53]:
Perfect. Thank you. And so it's like, again, bringing it back to that self awareness and self reflection part of it. I've really learned this way of being through this one catalyst, this one modality. And, yeah, I'm still learning, I'm still figuring it out, but going back into just kind of like creation or just showing up for myself, if I feel like there's urgency that I need to be doing something or performing, then I know that that's really not in alignment with who I am because I need to feel emotionally connected to what it is that I'm doing. And so again, it's always like a pendulum swing back and forth. I just want to be in the middle. I haven't mastered that just quite yet, but it's just something that I'm continuing to lead into and just figure out and feel exactly like what feels best.
Ashley Graham [00:16:46]:
I also feel that there is definitely balance that can be had to both sides of that processes, strategies, showing up, maybe even when the emotions aren't there, but ultimately, maybe 90% versus in the other part, 10% is creating when I feel activated to create because the emotionals, the emotion is there.
Aleya Harris [00:17:07]:
You mentioned having a past, present, and future relationship with yourself. And I think that that is beautiful because that truly is how we live our lives in the present moment. But relating things back to the past, always planning and thinking about the future, really is a multi time period existence that we have. I would like to focus on a past experience that has made you better in the present and in the future. What would you consider the most pivotal moment in your life? A moment of rebirth? And how did you manage the transition, and what did you learn? How are you better on the other side? And what tips do you have for others who maybe have gone through or are going through something similar in business or in life?
Ashley Graham [00:18:00]:
You were definitely asking the questions that.
Aleya Harris [00:18:02]:
I'm like, for the record, Ashley, I sent you these questions.
Ashley Graham [00:18:09]:
These things are like, yes, we could answer every single one of those questions. And there's initial ideas that come to mind when you're reflecting on questions, right? But then when you're in the moment and immediately this emotion comes up about an experience, you're like, do I talk about this? Do I not?
Aleya Harris [00:18:26]:
That's probably the one we want to talk about.
Ashley Graham [00:18:28]:
Exactly. But it's vulnerable. Okay.
Aleya Harris [00:18:33]:
One thing about vulnerability is that when you're vulnerable, it means that you're at your most brave and also one of your most aligned moments. I also will tell you that the audience for the flourishing entrepreneur podcast is one of the most loving and supportive I've ever come across when I get messages and notes and people reach out to guests. So you, my friend, I know it's going out into the world, but are in a safe place to be both vulnerable and brave. I'm right here with you.
Ashley Graham [00:18:59]:
Thank you so much. Okay, so, again, the initial experience and something that I have recently transformed in my life, and it's not something that has taken place in the last couple of months. I just hit two years of conscious sobriety a couple of days ago. Again, this is going to come out at a different time, necessarily. Thank you. But just reflecting on past, present, future, that identifier is like, I've learned a lot about those three identities through this process in ways that I never even initially knew was going to happen when I made the decision. And to be honest, it was like a completely just overwhelming sense of being that came through for me one day. It was the day after I had taken my last couple of drinks of wine, and all of a sudden, it was like I had stepped through a different point in time where I had no interest, no desire, no nothing to identify as a social drinker or as a drinker in general.
Ashley Graham [00:20:09]:
And the first couple of months, again, thinking back two years ago was very interesting because I met my cognitive thoughts in a completely different way. And not to say that it was vastly different, like that narrative, that dialogue was always there. But I started just hearing this voice differently, and this voice that had so much more clarity and it knew me, more so at the core than how it did previously. And again, I don't know the scientifical backing of the inner workings of that experience. I can always just speak from kind of authentically how they came up for me. But, yeah, it was just a completely new paradigm shift for me. And through the process, especially about the first year into it, I was like, you know what? Maybe I could step into that role again. Maybe I could step back into that identity.
Ashley Graham [00:21:11]:
And anytime that I had questioned or thought to explore it, it was like that voice came in and was like, no, this is not in alignment with you. There's no benefit, there's nothing that you're going to get out of this. And it was like I felt like I was being communicated to from my future self in a way that I have never really heard before. So that kind of covers the past and the present in a very small context. But then the present version is still kind of meeting the narrative between both sides of those consistently. It's like this present point in time for me, as I'm consistently hearing and reflecting on this past version, this past reflection, and it's narrative and dialogue with the future self that knows that that is really not in my path anymore. Moving forward. If present me decides to do it again, have a drink, then so be it.
Ashley Graham [00:22:15]:
But ultimately, the identity is no longer there for me. And I mean, I can go on and on and on and on and on about realizations and all the things, but again, I want to make sure that we're kind of staying on path.
Aleya Harris [00:22:30]:
Well, I appreciate you for being vulnerable and showing up and sharing that story, because I've benefited from it. I never really thought of a sobriety journey in that way or have ever heard it described in that way. And it's incredibly powerful. It lets me relate to people that are on a sobriety journey in a totally different way, and it allows me to analyze my own life and have greater expectation for my future self to show up should it find me doing something that I should not be doing. You hear that, future self, feel free to call me out now. Apparently, Ashley's future self likes her better because she's really working. If you feel like you want to call me out, now's your chance.
Ashley Graham [00:23:15]:
Now's your know. Again, I don't want to get, again, too focused on this, but I had a. Okay, this is going to get to the woo that was in your podcast recap of your audience, the woo. So we're going to go a little woo right now. So I get medium readings every now and then from a medium that I've been seeing for about two years. And I had booked a reading about six months into the conscious sobriety journey. And she had mentioned, and at the time, I had no idea what she was referring to, even though I had know that I had made this big, transformative decision and was still kind of feeling through all of the realizations that came with that. But she had mentioned that I was going to basically be transported to this point in time in my teenage years that was going to have a significant message that I did not understand at the time, but it was going to come through for me at that in a very short period of time of when she kind of felt the message come through, and I was like, I have no idea what she's talking about.
Ashley Graham [00:24:21]:
That could be a number of things, right? Like, we're going through so many different changes in our teenage years, exploring our social connections and all these other things. Family dynamics. Teenage years were quite an experience, I'm sure, as everybody understands. But it probably took a couple of weeks for me to really kind of feel into what it was that she was picking up on. And I was driving. Random. I get random nudges and messages that come through when I'm driving. I think it's just because I'm in a meditative state when I'm driving.
Ashley Graham [00:24:57]:
But all of a sudden, I had this flashback that the first drink that I ever took in my life was actually not from a desire that I had of my own. It was because I wanted to connect with who it was, offering it to me. It was from a friend, and I wanted to connect and relate and feel in connection with her, in relationship with her in that moment. And so I basically took my first ever drink of alcohol because I wanted to enjoy the dynamic of what we were sharing between one another. And it was like this profound realization that I was like, wow, okay. So actually drinking for x amount of years, I don't think was because out of desire. It was because I leaned through my dna of connection and connecting with other people. So it was, like, really profound.
Ashley Graham [00:25:45]:
And I was like, wow, okay. That's exactly what the medium was talking about.
Aleya Harris [00:25:50]:
Don't you just love it when the mediums are right? The mediums also love it when the mediums are right. The mediums always know that the mediums are right. It's everybody else that is skeptical. I'm so glad that you had that experience and that it was yet another anchor point, which sounds like even more anger points that you have been using to make this decision and stay true to a decision. And I'm so glad that you are, and that you're sensitive enough to listen and coachable enough from yourself to listen. So congratulations to you for being in that place. That's huge, because a lot of people are not. And even though the still small voice is small, they ignore it.
Aleya Harris [00:26:39]:
Then it gets louder and louder and louder, but then they have to wait for something catastrophic to happen to them before they're able to pay attention. And I'm so glad that you didn't do that. I'm so glad.
Ashley Graham [00:26:51]:
Thank you for letting me share.
Aleya Harris [00:26:53]:
Absolutely. I know that there's so much you're not sharing. I can see it, see it in your eyes. But that's okay. That's good. We'll talk later. We'll talk later. I'm grateful that you have chosen me to be a part of your relationship circle, and I know why.
Aleya Harris [00:27:10]:
I feel grateful for that and I know why you are differentiated from any other person I know. But please tell the lovely listeners here, if they haven't already gleaned on their own, why should they choose you to work with you, to be in relationship with you over any other publicists or media expert?
Ashley Graham [00:27:32]:
Yeah, I would say my initial answer to that question is I do bring a different perspective to the world of thought, leadership and the world of pr. And I kind of touched upon this briefly, but again, it's just the differences between processes, strategy and the masculine side of the industry, but also blending that to the very feminine traits of this work, which is trust and patience and allowing and receiving and being receptive to the identity shifts that happen naturally because of the work. I am now a second entrepreneur, probably a better way to express that, but energetically, I have had two physically different entities in business, closed out a previous one. The conscious publicist is actually my second business that I do perceive as its own new entity, even though it is still very much in the same industry, the same space. But I've took many years of figuring out what worked, what didn't worked, took lessons, failures, mistakes, growth opportunities, all the things, and really kind of molded a whole new path forward for how I want to be positioned and how I want to thrive in the industry moving forward. So bring it back to the actual ways of service and the ways that we now impact clients who are going to be in partnership with us. For the conscious publicist is it does meet them in different parts of the process. So very traditional sense, operated as a publicist, full on retained publicist, all in representation, perfect for the organizations who do not have the time to manage their own pr, to basically outsource it, know that they are being supported and guided and the work is being managed from somebody that they know, like and trust and respect.
Ashley Graham [00:29:30]:
But one of the things that I am most excited about with our new offer suite is basically these vip experiences that are heavily relating to consulting and advisory. I feel that I am a mentor and an educator and a guide. By default, it's just kind of me. My personality and these VIP experiences is basically customized to offer support to clients in different stages of the process. And the great thing about them, not that I want to go into too much detail about the offers because there's a lot, but it basically gives them a roadmap, a blueprint that they can continue to implement for months, if not years on end, if the content and the process and the strategy is still very much relevant for them. So these new vip experiences are a way for me to kind of shine in my brilliance and the things that light me up the most, which is basically educating and guiding and creating a strategy that is very much masculine and feminine blended into the ways that it connects in the transformation of the work. But paying it forward and giving it over to the client to be able to have the resources, the tools, the assets for them to use and rely on if and whenever they need it. That's kind of like how I'm differentiated from other publicists or other PR agencies and firms is it's very much, we'll do it for you, but I want to be a strategic advisor for my clients moving forward.
Ashley Graham [00:31:00]:
I want to be very much in the partnership with them, very much a part of the process, and helping them with the other things that go outside of the work of PR. Like, let's talk about your struggles, your pain points, who you are as a person. How can we take these parts of your identity and craft that into a message that is going to directly connect and impact those who you're looking to serve? Because there is that relatability, there's that know like and trust factor.
Aleya Harris [00:31:28]:
That's wonderful. It sounds. Working with you sounds amazing. If people want to do that, where can they find you?
Ashley Graham [00:31:36]:
Yes. So you can connect with me on theconsciouspublicist.com and as far as social media, if you want to connect with me personally, find me on LinkedIn. That is definitely my favorite platform. And we also have the podcast, the conscious publicist podcast that you can find on Apple and Spotify and all the other streaming platforms.
Aleya Harris [00:31:55]:
Well, I thank you so much for being here with us today, ashley, for sharing, for instructing, and for generally just being a lovely human. I appreciate you.
Ashley Graham [00:32:06]:
I appreciate. Thank you. So grateful to have met you this year.
Aleya Harris [00:32:10]:
Oh, me too, for sure. I am so grateful to ashley for being brave and sharing herself with us. When was the last time you were vulnerable like that with someone? When was the last time you were vulnerable like that with yourself? What are you not telling yourself that's pulling you away from conscious awareness? Sometimes we're not conscious in the moment and aware in the moment because we feel like in the moment is where the pain lives, and that's not true in this moment. Right now is where all possibilities exist for the better, for the worse. But if you truly believe and stay in the present that the universe is conspiring for your good, then act like it. Expect the present to be wonderful. Expect good things to come your way right now. I've been working on this a lot.
Aleya Harris [00:33:28]:
A lot because I've been in some dark places and you know that after hopefully listening to more than just this episode. But if this is your first episode, then welcome. Just know I was in some dark places and it sounds like I am telling you to put a bandaid on your leg that's just been severed and that that will make it all fine. But I'm telling you, when I took it seriously to just have better expectations, things really started to change. So I leave you with that thought and I thank you for listening to this episode and any other episode of the flourishing Entrepreneur podcast that you may have listened to in the past or plan to listen to in the future. I really appreciate you. I appreciate your emails. I appreciate your dms.
Aleya Harris [00:34:14]:
I appreciate your text messages. Thank you very much. If you want to email me because you just got something to say, feel free. Aleya aleya@alayaharris.com is my direct email, but that's it for today. So until next time, I am Aleya Harris. This is the flourishing entrepreneur podcast and I'm wishing you lots of love, light and abundance. Bye for now.
Yuliya Patsay [00:34:43]:
Thank you for listening to this episode of the flourishing entrepreneur podcast with Aleya Harris. Vibing with what you hear, leave a five star review to spread the love and be sure to click subscribe. We wish you love, light and abundance. See you next time.
