We were lucky to catch up with Maria Florio recently and have shared our conversation below.
Maria, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?
The kindest thing anyone has ever done for me involves so many people and backstories that I don’t even know where or how to begin. I will start by saying that none of these people had to do what they did. It is thanks to all of them (in addition to my mother and sisters who are my core support) that I am here today answering your questions. I don’t come from a family that is rich or with an established network in my field, and as a solopreneur this is a tough one (as any self-made business owner/entrepreneur/solopreneur will know and tell you). Also, my Italian family lives overseas, which means I don’t have the opportunity to be surrounded by their love and support all the time (which is also not easy). In fact, one of the acts of kindness I will mention is being welcomed by my lovely Miami family. They give me the ability to have a home and family at my side while away from Naples, Italy. This is something that I appreciate beyond what words can ever describe because it is so loving and selfless that there are no words to express my gratitude in its entirety. I can only say thank you from my heart to my Miami family who allow me to enjoy a family environment and have their support. Also, thanks to them I have the opportunity to work from one of the most beautiful cities in the US (second to my bella Napoli of course, which is my forever heart). Another act of kindness I want to share comes from colleagues-friends whom without I would not have gotten the Inspiring Human Potential Inner Growth (IHP-IG) content online. Their time, support and expertise helped me to establish my online presence and the IHP-IG content platforms and online courses. These are only two of the many acts of kindness I have been blessed with since the beginning of my solopreneur journey and life. The kindness of people’s hearts, their emotional and financial support, the sharing of their time with me, the gift of moments lived together, and the expertise shared; all of these and more are priceless to me, and to how far I’ve come, as well as where I’m headed. Every act fills my heart and eyes with tears of love and gratitude.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
The first thing you should know about me is that I love people (humanity) and I love supporting people’s personal development inner growth journey through the Inspiring Human Potential (IHP) online content, courses, events, and sessions.
While my solopreneur journey began with marketing and public relations consulting and content production services, following my Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy, it expanded to include online marketing, personal development inner growth and 5D ascension consulting (mentoring) services.
The online marketing consulting services that I offer to purpose driven entrepreneurs and business owners are still available, but what has a priority is everything IHP related.
The IHP content and consulting (mentoring, mentorship) services are growing in demand since people are seeking for ways to achieve their 5D self-empowered enlightened way of life; to embody their harmonized mind-heart-body conscious self; to be their higher consciousness self in their day-to-day life; and to learn to completely disengage from those behaviors they have noticed are keeping them from living their best life.
As people uncover parts of themselves that seemed straightforward, much is learnt; much is felt; and much is welcomed with compassion, unconditional love, equanimity, and more. This leads to self-empowerment and the reintegration of all parts of us (ourselves) in the most beautiful of ways, which can bring to the choice of further conscious enlightenment.
Through the IHP content and consulting (mentoring, mentorship) services people gain access to their core self from the mind-heart-body, which enables them to achieve a mind-heart-body-coherent embodied state. This ultimately means tapping into your infinite higher human consciousness potential to bring it forth into day-to-day life, into your interactions, relationships, work, and overall life. The ability to deal with the unknown, unexpected, and unwanted from within and with a flow state that follows one’s own heart.
Results depend on the person’s unique timing since there is a lot that happens in this journey called life. Every moment of life is important and requires the time to be processed from the mind-heart-body of the person who is pursuing personal development through an inner growth journey, mindset and lifestyle approach. Furthermore, the body remembers what the mind forgets (as stated by Jacob Moreno). Therefore, there is a need for somatic empathy and compassion to kick in. The person who is expanding their consciousness and self-awareness needs the time to reassess the information they have learned about themselves and their life, etc. It is life, not a race, so this is only natural.
My multidisciplinary background (humanities and social sciences, plus continued education in fields such as psychology/psych-education, neuroscience, quantum physics, and more) and spiritual journey (and continued education in this field as well), plus Reiki (I’m a certified Natural Healer Reiki Master and Natural Healer Reiki Distance Healing Specialist) create an all-inclusive option for people who want to expand their consciousness and tap into their infinite higher human consciousness potential, and their optimal mind-heart-body well-being.
It takes a lot of courage to access your core self and to dive into the depths of you, to expand your consciousness from the mind-heart-body and bring it all to an embodied state of wholeness thanks to unconditional love for “flaws and imperfections” and all that you get to explore as you pursue your personal development inner growth mindset choices.
It is an honor for me, and profoundly amazing, to support people who are pursuing inner growth and personal development in their life, and to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs with online marketing content and consulting services.
I’m proud to accompany people as they expand their consciousness, achieve their well-being, and live their best life, as well as pursue business growth.
You can get familiar with everything IHP related when you visit the website, tune in to the podcast, or watch one of the YouTube or TikTok shorts, or Instagram Reels.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
When I graduated from college with my Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy, I sent many (it felt like millions, but probably was in the hundreds) applications to try and get the “dream job” that would let me help people and make a difference in the world. While I waited, I had to make some form of income and so, I ventured off into freelancing land – marketing, public relations, and copywriting jobs. I also looked for administrative and secretarial jobs, which I found and got. I looked for any job that could help me have an income for loans, helping my household, and to you know, live life – go out every now and then, maybe take a trip, do what “grown-ups” do. I even taught English as a foreign language for some time. The first five to six years after college were tough, in all ways – financially, career wise, directions, fulfillment, you name it. I was not getting calls from my “dream job” applications and I was not moving any closer to helping people the way my heart was calling me to do. This is when I realized that the “dream job” was not going to be the way and it is also when I started doing more online marketing (because the industry was growing). I went from freelancing jobs to becoming a full-time online marketing professional – social media management and copywriting, email marketing, website optimization, SEO, building marketing campaigns and so forth. Although my freelancing jobs got me to my solopreneur journey as an online marketer, my heart still longed to include my childhood dream of helping people. This “helping people” was not in a way of offering marketing, but in a way of touching lives, to help people’s overall well-being and to inspire their higher human potential. This is when I started writing the Inner Growth Mindset book, the first part of it, and since blogging was available for free, I decided I would start making the mindset available through the Inspiring Human Potential blog so that I could start helping people in addition to doing online marketing. This is how I entered the online business entrepreneur journey, but we’ll save the rest for the second question.
Have you ever had to pivot?
Even though resilience brought me to merge two solopreneur journeys into one (online marketing and inspiring human potential), I was still looking to fulfill more of the “helping people” part and to reach more people with my online marketing content approach (because there are too many sales pitch and content communication strategies that focus on triggering fear through their content and overall online marketing approach instead of triggering love, purpose, and passion, which are just as effective if not better than fear for reasons I won’t expand on here, but feel free to ask me about it). The first thing I did was to develop two online courses, one focused on online marketing content and the other on inspiring human potential through the inner growth mindset. When that was done, as an online marketer I knew that my brand (Maria Florio and Event Guardian Angel Planner, LLC) was primarily known for online marketing and content consulting services, public relations and events, and Italy travel (thanks to my family’s business in the travel industry in Naples, Italy). This needed to be addressed so that I could appear in search engines for something other than those services. I started blogging everyday with specific keywords that included inspiring human potential, inner growth, online marketing content, and personal development. Low and behold, within a year, I had pivoted from being found solely for online marketing to being found for inspiring human potential and inner growth. Today, I am still building my rebranding efforts with the IHP podcast and IHP YouTube channel. In the meantime, one of the courses has been made available on Udemy (the IHP-IG Beginners level). The plan is to make all of the online courses available as soon as I get the time to upload them. Being a solopreneur, I’m not sure when that will be (all in good timing). Pivoting is a constant part of the process for online entrepreneurship seeing as the online world keeps us on our feet. What’s most important is focus, perseverance, and knowing who you are talking to, helping, and how to reach them the best, while also being fully transparent. This is applicable in your business, career and in all areas of your life. The most amazing part for me (for an online entrepreneur who loves marketing, helping people, and seeing our lovely world unfold into a new expanded consciousness era) is the platforms that are allowing the creative process to unfold and to be a possibility for anyone who has it in them to see things through till the end – it’s an ongoing end until we live of course.
Contact Info:
- Website: inspiringhumanpotential.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/marianflorio
- Facebook: facebook.com/inspiringhumanpotential1
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mariaflorio
- Twitter: twitter.com/luna12780
- Youtube: youtube.com/user/luna012780
- Other: luna12780.com
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Maria Florio