We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Wesley Schauble. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Wesley below.
Wesley, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
I’ve taken multiple risks during my career and every time I take one I’m always taken aback by the reward that I receive. In recent times, the first major risk I took was when my career as a graphic designer began to stall and I was feeling unfilled by the work I was creating. This was back in 2016 and my wife and I were about to have our first child. I was working at Digital Kitchen in Seattle and even though the work was interesting and aligned with my skill set, something was missing. Prior to accepting the job at Digital Kitchen I turned down an opportunity to join Amazon as a contractor and I was beginning to regret passing up that opportunity. I decided to reach back out to Aquent where I had initially received the Amazon offer and spoke with them and mentioned I was regretting my decision and it just so happened that they had another opportunity open up for an Art Director role with the same team. I went through the interview process again and this time I accepted the role. Within a few weeks of working there they offered me a full-time role which meant I needed to do a full-day interview and receive an offer if I made it through that process. Another couple of days went by and I was offered a role as an Art Director leading the entire line of Echo products producing first-run videos which are basically tutorial videos teaching people how to use the devices. I felt like I finally found the work I was looking for in my other roles and I ended up pushing my skills and growing in my career as a result. I stayed with Amazon for a little over 5 years and at that point l I hit a wall and began to feel the sense of burnout in my work. I decided to leave the company because at this point in my career, the work wasn’t speaking to my soul the way it did when I started and I knew I needed a change.
In the summer of 2021 I took a leap of faith and after leaving Amazon, I didn’t have any full-time employment on the horizon. I was living off the extra money I save from Amazon and awaiting the birth of my second child. In my free time I was diving deep into my passion of music. I had been a musician since I was 13 and have learned to play a diverse set of instruments from bass to guitar, synths and drums. It was during this time that I had reconnected with my old love for electronic dance music, mainly House & Techno that I loved so much during college. I ended up investing in a cheap DJ controller and took online courses to help me build out my skills for mixing music and immediately felt like I found the passion for work that I lost in my last job. I grew my skills further and began a podcast at the end of 2021 called Daydream. The name was chosen as it reflected the style of music I was listening to as well as the frequent episodes I found of myself daydreaming while at Amazon for something more than what I was experiencing. My time at Amazon wasn’t bad or anything, but it definitely felt like it sucked the soul out of my love for design and I was wishing to rekindle that love since I do enjoy the process of designing.
In the spring of 2022 I got a call from a headhunter I met early in the pandemic who worked at Google and they were interested in interviewing me for a senior design position with the company. Being out of work and not having any other prospects I knew my money was draining from my bank account and I needed to remedy this somehow. I quickly cobbled together my portfolio and in a week I got the signal they were wanting me to loop for a position. I was floored that I was being considered for a role but I was realistic that I might not get it since less than .2% of people actually make it through their interview process and team matching. I tried to stay positive and knew that this might not work out. After looping with Google I heard back they wanted to move me into the team match phase and after six more works I had cleared that hurdle as well. The next step in the process was the final process and I met with several teams before deciding on one internal-facing team for the company. I passed the final step and received an offer that exceeded my wildest dreams. I couldn’t believe I was going to work for Google and I felt like my career had reached it’s pinnacle at that point. When I started in my role, I did everything I could to flex my wide array of skills while working to impress the leadership I was working for. During my first six months the economy started to fall and Google had to begin to make tough decisions around hiring as well as unfortunately lay off a bunch of talented co-workers. It was around this time that my burnout I experienced while working at Amazon came roaring back. I felt like I had pushed myself beyond my limits and needed to step away from my role in order to heal.
In my time off I began to ponder more about what I was truly passionate about and I kept coming back to music. I knew that music inspired me more than design had to that point in my career even when I factored in working at large behemoth companies like Amazon and Google. I began to investigate more about binaural beats and frequency music via the internet since I was fascinated how music and sound could change your brain state from beta waves down to theta waves. I found a sound healer online that was located in Bali at the time and I started working with him and learning so much more about the craft. After learning so much, something inside me clicked like it hadn’t before. I felt like this was my true purpose in life and I should make this my career.
After coming back from leave at Google I learned that internal roles at the company were in jeopardy and it wasn’t but 3 more months before I received an email along with the rest of my team letting us all know our jobs were ending. I knew that everything in the universe happens for a reason despite us not seeing that reason in the moment and thought to myself that this was the time for me to finally do what I truly loved. The months that followed I spent as much free time as I could to fully invest myself into learning everything about sound healing. I am grateful for my opportunity to work at Google and even more grateful I get to spend the time during my day creating something that speaks deep into my soul. Today, I’m still ramping up in my new career but I know that the future holds something bigger for me and it is my job to trust that it will work out and to get out of my own way of limiting beliefs in order to receive its bounty.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I’m a Sound Healer and Akashic Channel. These might sound unfamiliar, but essentially, I work with energy. Sound Healing uses specific frequencies to promote balance on mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. It’s like bringing your body back into balance while activating the parsympathetic nervous system which allows the body to rest and rejuvenate.
Beyond that, I’m also an Akashic Channel. Think of it as tapping into a library of information and energy that is encoded with events, thoughts, and feelings throughout time and space. It’s like accessing a higher wisdom that can guide you through life and help you see the potential of matters in the most positive light and for the greatest good possible.
I’m currently working on building out a subscription platform that will allow me to take on as many clients as possible in order to have the greatest impact without being limited to working with people on a one-to-one basis. I operate both of these aspects under the name, Suyume, which combines two words together to mean a beautiful dream for the future.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
If I had to summarize my mission, it would be to remind humanity how powerful each individual truly is. I believe we all are sovereign beings and oftentimes we give our power away in unnecessary ways. We were taught through societal conditioning that we need to rely on external forces to make us happy, wealthy or any other emotion when in fact we all possess this power internally. I know a lot of people love to place the idea of happiness, success or wealth in some point in the future when in fact it exists here in the present moment. It is often our job to unblock this by stopping resisting change and to open ourselves to receive the abundance that is all around us. I realize this might be a hard concept to grasp and if you allow these words to be received in time the message will make sense, just give it some time. Besides showing people their true authentic power, I also believe in being in maintaining a state of non-judgement toward myself and others.
Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?
I am an avid consumer of information and there are two profound books I wish more people were aware of. These books were written by the same author who unfortunately is now deceased but his wisdom lives on. The first book I would recommend people read is Power vs Force by Dr. David Hawkins. This book illustrates the internal power we possess inherently and how we can use it to our benefit. In the book he also outlines the map of consciousness and how each emotion can be seen through the lens of frequency and where it lies on a map from low frequency of shame all the way up to full consciousness or oneness. It is my belief that the entire universe is filled with consciousness and everything in it possesses some level of consciousness and there are many levels to it that we can experience.
The second book I would recommend after you read the first book is called “Letting Go” also by Dr. David Hawkins. “Letting Go” teaches readers how to release negative emotions and achieve a higher state of consciousness. The book’s central technique is the “Letting Go Process,” which involves acknowledging negative emotions, allowing them to surface, and then consciously releasing them. By letting go of emotions, individuals can experience greater peace, joy, and fulfillment in their lives.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://wesleyschauble.com
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@suyumesounds
- Other: https://suyume.com/
https://daydream.fm/
Image Credits
Carolyn Schauble