We were lucky to catch up with Vaughn Lawrence recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Vaughn, thanks for joining us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?
I think my entire business has been a risk from the beginning. It started with building my foundation on God, which I was told was bad to mix with business. My entire foundation is based on the biblical foundation of how God designed humans to live, eat and function on this earth and how we have turned so far from that. Food, sunshine, water and herbs were the original and only medicine for thousands of years. I also have invested everything I own into something I believe in, have around 20 employees and three different buildings. I continue to grow in faith, even with all the challenges of employees, finances and a medical industry and media that wants to silence you, censor you, take away your voice, and call you a quack! But if people only knew where the term quack originally came from and who the real quacks are, ha!
I would say I am still choosing to risk everything and fight for what I believe in, trusting God is on my wide and helping me in this journey. I have a long way to go to accomplish my true vision of having land with healing centers where people can come and heal body, soul and spirit on one place. Lord willing!
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.
My testimony and story is on my website… I went back to school at 33 years old while living in Las Vegas to become a Naturopathic Doctor. I started Spirit of Health in 2010. I have a retail store, specializing in only the best quality herbs and supplements on the market (as close to the way God created them as possible we say). We have over 220 herbs and 60 of our own herbal formulas! We also have an on-line business and a warehouse from which we do our shipping…
We also offer consultations and work with people with chronic illness, using lab testing to determine the root cause of why people are sick (which is always parasites, mold, fungus, Lyme disease, environmental toxins, heavy metals, radioactive elements, etc.) Something the medical system never shows anyone… We have an entire building dedicated to consultations and lab testing, with 2 practitioners and 2 health coaches currently.
We also have a Pilates and Dance studio, offering 24 classes with 11 different instructors! We have a lot going on! (-: It’s why we are truly a wellness center!
Oh, and we have services! We have ion detox foot baths, lymhpatic vibration machine, IMRS mat which is a PEMF device, RIFE machine, a far infrafred sauna, and offer neurofeedback for brain healing and regeneration.
We want people to know we are a full service wellness center! Our motto is We love God, We love people, We love health!
Have you ever had to pivot?
Yes, I have had to take time for myself and my family. I realized I was pushing too hard, too long, too fast and even thought I promised myself I wouldn’t get caught up in that, I did unfortunately. it took my own health challenges, and have my own family with a wife and 3 kiddos to learn to slow down and take time for things in my life that are most important!
Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?
Working with people! Creating an infrastructure for a new business of policies, procedures, manuals, etc. which I had NONE! Handling conflict with people, how to encourage and motivate people. How to handle working with people who feel like you never do enough for them. it is very challenging and it is only LIFE and BUSINESS through experience that has taught me to grow in these areas!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.spiritofhealthkc.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritofhealthkc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritofHealth
- Linkedin: n/a
- Twitter: n/a
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpiritofHealthKC
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/spirit-of-health-grandview?osq=spirit+of+health
Image Credits
I am going to have my admin get you all the 4-6 images representing our brand if that’s ok, I don’t know where to find them! (-: The ones I picked were just for a fun event we did a few years back…