We recently connected with Angela Burchett and have shared our conversation below.

Angela , appreciate you joining us today. Parents play a huge role in our development as youngsters and sometimes that impact follows us into adulthood and into our lives and careers. Looking back, what’s something you think you parents did right?

I am incredibly grateful for the wisdom and values my parents instilled in me from a young age. The older I get, the more I understand that the most valuable things are actually not things, they are the intangibles. Things like, truly seeing people and choosing love as your baseline modus operandi.

I think that prioritizing care for others, wanting to see others live into their fullest potential and succeed in their personal, as well as professional lives, is a rarity. We see ourselves so autonomously in our society that we fail to really comprehend as a culture that the well being of each person impacts our society and in perhaps in a roundabout secondary fashion, us personally.

My parents modeled a lifelong track record of investing into the wellbeing of others, genuinely caring for, sacrificing their time and resources to see others through a difficult patch, extending neighborly compassion and practical help.

Watching this lifestyle from a young age was very formative, I have always wanted to be a person with whom people can “let down their hair” their guard, and come home to themselves. Providing a container for judgement free space where one can be honest about their journey and humanity – and find someone who sees, hears, understands, and champions them forward – with a healthy arsenal of tools for recovery, getting untuck, or pursuing soaring personal growth.

Over the past several decades I have found much personal fulfillment in being able to provide this service to others through various mentoring, coaching. consulting, and serving traumatized populations.

I’m deeply grateful to my parents for instilling such a valuable legacy in me. Love really does light the way, bringing each of us home to ourselves, and one another.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am an Intuitive Wellness Coach, a hybrid that marries my esteem for holistic wellness practices with a foundation of integrated faith. I specialize in holistic and creative modalities for well being, and personal empowerment. Meaning, intentional consideration of the WHOLE person, mind, body, soul, and spirit, and their unique lived experiences.

Coaching has been something I have been doing organically for the bulk of my life. I have had the opportunity to serve as a mediator for conflict resolution, a mentor for young professionals, a spiritual advisor in various settings, an independent consultant with a national agency, and a season as a safe house “mom” for child human-trafficking survivors.

I intend to positively contribute to the lives of as many people as I have the capacity to over the course of a lifetime. That’s a personal core value, a thread that I hope will continue to weave through each chapter of my life.

With my nearly two decade background in humanitarian work in the non-profit sector, I treasure the wealth of experience working and doing life alongside diverse populations from nearly every background and status. The span ranges from people living in abject destitution, to millionaires many times over. Human trafficking survivors, creatives, entrepreneurs, young adults, spiritual seekers, business executives.

About five and a half years ago, came a kernel of an idea, and along with it a deep conviction to extract the gold from all these varied experiences, while also integrating the knowledge from my own journey through trauma, betrayal, and mystery illness, to -metaphorically speaking- alchemize these resources in a practical way that could help others- specifically individuals who (for whatever reason) didn’t want to utilize more traditional outlets, or didn’t have access to them.

Life is as they say, “BRUTIFUL” (Beautiful and Brutal) my goal is to resource and support my clients as they move through the brutal and come out more brilliant, authentic versions of themselves, full of hope.

Some of my favorite populations to work with are,

– Those who want to BLOOM into their lives, but perhaps aren’t sure what steps to take.
– HSP’S aka Highly Sensitive Persons, I love this population along with the unique challenges and gifts they bring to the world.
– Individuals rebuilding their lives and souls after narcissistic abuse
– People who are recovering from spiritual abuse

As far as services, I offer several customizable coaching packages, and take on the occasional consulting client as I have availability.

We are currently mid-development of my signature WHOLE SOUL course, which should be available later this summer. If people are interested they can sign up on my website contact form, and put “signature course” in the comment section. For those who want to cultivate community with others on a similar journey and receive member exclusive content, keep your eyes open for a membership offering early 2023!!

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

It took me a long, long, time to realize that the ability to feel deep compassion and empathy for others, and hold space for them, is not common. Really SEEING people, HEARING the melody of their soul, beneath their words. In my opinion, it’s a holy kind of work. I take it seriously because the power of presence, compassion, non-judgement and safety is achingly absent in our society, and we are the less for it.

As a human, I have had my own heartbreaking experiences that opened my eyes to the darkness in humanity, but it also illuminated how many people in our world really need someone in their corner who genuinely want to see them thrive and overcome.

Your lens of the world growing up is solely your perspective, by default I assumed everyone had a similar capacity and desire to cultivate life and hope in the hearts of others. I will tell say, the learning curve was steep!! I think sometimes those innate gifts are harder to readily identify in ourselves, especially if society tends to give greater weight to something that has a more concrete and visible affect like athletic prowess or musical aptitude.

Have you ever had to pivot?

Around six years ago I started a non-profit project in my city, It was called Love In Bloom. Using my background as a florist, I made bouquets out of donated flowers, enlisting a small team of volunteers to hand them out on the city streets to passerby’s, sometimes with encouraging words attached to the bouquets, a simple, unexpected act of kindness.

We had many beautiful stories come from that project and I was so grateful for the volunteers who would take a bucket of flower bouquets to their cars and then walk around town striking up conversations with strangers. I loved the project. I poured so many hours, my heart, and so much energy into picking up the flowers, hauling them up the stairs to my third floor apartment, sorting, cleaning, cutting, creating bouquets, writing notes, and coordinating the pickups and gives with volunteers.

In time it became difficult sustain the project without additional manpower and the needed infrastructure, I also had a mystery injury that occurred and wasn’t healing, eventually I had to pivot, retiring the project. I learned valuable lessons and had a wonderful experience impacting others, even in a very small and simple way. Shortly after I was recruited to a role in anti-human trafficking. It was a new beginning on the continued theme of compassion, empathy, and humanity, through life’s varied seasons those threads tie each chapter together.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.angelaburchett.com www.whole-soul.com
• Instagram: @___wholesoul (new account)
• Other: To contact me about coaching packages, working together, to sign up for emails and updates regarding the course launch, go to www.angelaburchett.com, and use the contact or the email subscription form. The Whole Soul site is under renovation, and will be live shortly.

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Joe Johnson