We were lucky to catch up with Priestess Journey IS recently and have shared our conversation below.

Priestess Journey, appreciate you joining us today. We’re complete cheeseballs and so we love asking folks to share the most heartwarming moment from their career – do you have a touching moment you can share with us?

I was working in Corporate America managing an office. I know everyone has horror stories of the stuffiness and the demands of corporate but that’s where I began Sum Good Juju. It wasn’t all bad. I began emerging into my initiation as Priestessjourney. Never being able to be one of those people who could easily follow rules and go along, I still kept my colorfulness and I seemed to always carry a therapist, magical, or mothering vibe.
Every morning my co-worker would line up at my office door for hugs and advice or readings or inspiration to help them through their week.
I often wondered how I got to that place with my co-workers.
Maybe it was all of the plants or crystals or the waterfall I kept in my office. My office became like a little nook of magick in a world of grey suites and deadlines.

I would hear rumors of being the “Witch Woman in suite 310”
I was indifferent and yet I couldn’t stop the trajectory that I was on.

One day I heard a knock on my office door, a co-worker came in and as usual, I instructed her to sit and asked what she needed.
She cried and I offered a hug.
She began telling me that her nephew was on his deathbed. He was at the end of his battle with MS.
Straight away, she asked me if I could help him in his process of dying. Such a strange request, I wasn’t sure why she asked or even how to do that. Ironically I agreed.
I felt led to.
So that’s what I did. 2 Days later there I was helping her and assisting her nephew in crossing over into the spirit realm.
It was tremendously heartwarming, and more so it was such a great honor to be a part of someone’s last moments here. We created a celebration. We created a calm and reassuring transition for a soul who was ready for his next mission.
I had never been so close to death to see the full scope of the spirit leaving the body. It was deeply moving, very emotionally intense, and tender, yet fascinating.

My co-worker and I had such a rich relationship after those moments. That experience changed both of our lives for the better.

Priestess Journey, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Priestess St. Journey Is. I am the owner of Sum Good JuJu. We believe in seeing the magic in the mundane. I’m an enthusiastic spiritualist, medium, conjurer, rootworker, Plant medicine facilitator, certified life coach, Reiki Master, and Bhatki Yogini. I also serve as Diplomatic minister of Melanite Star Nation supporting the stability of Black families and am a practitioner of intentional living.
Sum Good JuJu biggest area of work is with women who are reshaping their relationships with themselves and with pleasure.
I’m a woman that has been and continues to be on a journey of healing & empowerment.
Utilizing my natural gifts as a spiritualist and medium to aid my clients and community in delving deeper into their healing processes has been a glorious journey.

As a transformation facilitator, I simultaneously guide individuals and communities on a unique and powerful journey of self-exploration, internal understanding, and peeling back layers of generational trauma. Reimplanting ideas of joy, rest, pleasure, and ease as a way of living back into life is fundamental.
My work is solely Heart-based is what sets Sum Good JuJu apart from others… I strive to give people tools that will align them with their inner wisdom. Sum Good JuJu simply reminds people of their power and magick.

How did I get here? I’ve always been here. I was raised in the traditional Black Christian church. My life was filled with church services, church gatherings, Sunday dinners, Bible study, disincarnate spirits, and performing spontaneous healing. I’m grateful for my upbringing, it’s there that I learned how to use sound and song and how to work with energy. I’ve never been a stranger to the “strange” or the commonly unseen.
I believe we all have a path, a destiny, and I began walking along my path regardless of my fear and doubt.

I’m most proud of the sacred space and the team I’ve built that supports Sum Good JuJu in helping others in LIVING LIFE.
Every moment that I can guide someone through a dark space, everyone who has been able to reconcile a relationship with themselves, an ancestor, friend, or loved one through the area I create, every moment I’ve been able to give someone clarity is a proud moment.
Sum Good JuJu is a catalyst for transformation and redefining community. We believe in learning to love and play and dance again. Life isn’t defined by struggle but by living.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Being self-made. It’s a fraudulent thought process and the idea of that is deeply traumatizing. I’m honestly still undoing the pattern of doing it all myself.
I was raised very independently. I didn’t realize how much not having a community or team-oriented mindset set me back until I began building my business and brand.
So much time was spent on me doing everything myself, instead of me focusing on my craft. Marketing, emails, SEO, classes, materials, responding to clients, traveling advertising, and community work. were just some of the things I was doing daily…By myself.

Interestingly, it never dawned on me that I was hitting exhaustion until a client, who felt so blessed by my services asked if she could be of service to me. She wanted to give and be a part of this thing that was growing. It was jarring. WOW, I don’t have to do it ALL. lol I couldn’t even imagine.
After months of denying her, I gave in and realized that by denying her, I was denying myself an opportunity to grow in an area in which I needed help. I was also taking away someone’s desire to give.
She taught me about community and team building without even realizing it. It was those moments that opened me up to community and created a supportive team who believes in healing and wellness.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

I do it all over again. I would choose this path, this specialty, this road, this profession. I’d definitely do it differently but then again, it all happened so perfectly. No, I wouldn’t change a single thing.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.SumGoodJuJu.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/Priestessjourneyis
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Sum-Good-Juju/100063627211182/
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/priestess-journey-is-sumgoodjuju