We were lucky to catch up with Ali Levine recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Ali, thanks for joining us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?
Thank you so much for having me. A defining moment in my career was as a celebrity stylist, I was pregnant with my first daughter and I realized I was being affected by everything and everyone around me. I no longer was okay just doing and doing and I started to burn out as well as notice different energy was affecting me. I needed to start being more conscious and present in my life. I started to have more awareness. This completely changed my career because I was no longer on autopilot. Once I became a new mom, everything shifted and I wanted to be around people and clients who understood that and were conscious as well. This led me to blogging more, podcasting, sharing my real and raw truths, getting into content creation, working with brands that aligned with my values and messages and much more. I went from a very ego space of work to a soul journey of starting to share all of me and not a filtered version of me.
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.
Ali Levine a certified breathwork Practitioner, Intuitive stylist and Transformation Expert. I help take her clients from their breakdowns to their breakthroughs. Embodying all that they are through their soul’s purpose. Using her signature methodology of the ALI method, I help you shift from your lower vibrations to higher states of consciousness. Through the breath & certain exercises, meditations, divine coaching, I hold space and facilitates your shifting, your awareness and even your own healing. I will help you step into, surrender and awaken to your B.E.S.T. Self. (Breathe embody surrender transform)
I am the founder of the app Breathe & B – which takes you from being plugged into the matrix to awakening and allowing you to be you fully and come home to yourself at a soul level. By using my app, you can download on the App Store and google play, subscribe for all access, for mindful intentions, breathwork exercises and more.
Also, as an intuitive stylist I help my clients breathe through their closet, tap into the ‘design’ of their soul, and come home to themselves through the wardrobe of their dreams.
Throughout my career, I have styled countless well-known celebrities some of which include: Jesse McCartney, Joey King, Candace Bure, Scheana Shay, Lisa Vanderpump, Kearran Giovanni, Gretchen Rossi, supported networks like Nickelodeon, Bravo, E! been featured as a lifestyle expert on local & world wide new stations, red carpet events, and even starred in a Bravo show called, Stripped that aired in 2017-2018. I recently walked away from Hollywood at the height of my career to support conscious women & those on their spiritual journey that I have connected with most.
I believe that styling has less to do with pretty clothes and more to do with embodying our soul’s purpose! My signature process takes her clients through a self-discovery journey and transforms their closets into a place that is finally aligned with their authenticity, inside and out. Tools that I use include: breathwork, color education, visualization, mood boarding, and more. After working with me, my clients experience new energetic space to manifest their desires, joy, confidence, fulfillment, a badass wardrobe, and a sense of healing that was disguised as my closet audit, which is always my secret weapon!
After going through my own spiritual awakening and a very heavy season of postpartum depression and soul searching, my spiritual & wellness journey is what changed my life. This is what led me to getting deeper into this world and work and why I’m extremely passionate about sharing all of my tools with others.
I have always loved transformation and helping my clients feel confident in their wardrobe. Breathwork is a next level confidence and potency and we are able to use the breath to go from surviving to thriving. For me, it’s been a soul transformation and I love to take this embodiment and bring it to others.
I have always said confidence is your best accessory and now I’ve added authenticity is your super power. How we find this, is by returning home to ourselves and realizing our truth of our soul and who we are, when we come home and go within.
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
Yes, my first real pivot and shift that happened was after I went through massive burnout in my celebrity styling career. At first it was a pivot in my business. It quickly led to a pivot and change in my career and my life. Let me back up. When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was experiencing more and more burnout in my celebrity styling career. Then came the birth of my first baby girl, and my birth was very traumatic. Shortly after this trauma, I was in a deep postpartum depression. During this time, I lost myself, I mean all of myself. I completely lost my excitement for my career and I was honestly just lost and dark in all areas of my life. Fast forward, to finding meditation ( which was the beginning of my spiritual journey) to focusing on my health and well being and nothing else, I realized I needed to pivot tremendously. I focused on my mind, body and soul and becoming a new mom. After sometime, I started sharing my story on my social platforms and I pivoted into becoming a content creator about motherhood. I never expected to share my story but it was therapeutic for me and it was helping others in the process. Then my next pivot came in 2020, when I decided to become certified in breathwork and jump into a whole new field to serve and work after it had transformed my life. Honestly, reflecting on it all, I’ve had many pivots and continue too. Each leads me to a beautiful new journey, evolution of myself and learning of myself further.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
Something I’ve had to unlearn is letting my mind take over. Letting my ego run my thoughts and the noise cloud my judgement and intuition. This is something I first learned with meditation when I went through my postpartum depression and the different cognitive and NLP therapy. Being able to get quiet, get away from my darker thoughts and anxiety and depression, I was experiencing over and over. Then breathwork came along when I was pregnant with my second daughter, and it changed my pregnancy experience and my life overall to be quite honest. Especially in a time where the world was wild and upside down ( 2020). It allowed me to stay out of my mind and in my body. It allowed me to access my intuition, what my body was saying Vs the fear in my mind. Our mind is so powerful and sometimes changing our thoughts isn’t enough. When we can get into our body, and access our breath, we can come home to ourselves and our own truth.
We find what we really need and not what the mind is feeding us in fear. So I’ve had to unlearn the mind, the patterns, the programming over and over, I continue to use my practice and embody it, to be able to move through thoughts that can come up. I’ve learned how to change my thoughts, how to love myself through them and get in my body and find the wisdom I need and release it so I have peace. My life has completely changed. Once I realized so much of my own fear, stories, attachments, and trauma was stored in my body and there was a way to truly release it, this was the moment breathwork changed my life. Forever. I realized I could anchor into the body and actually receive the wisdom I needed and release what no longer served me. Fast forward to using this practice deeply in 2020 while giving birth to my daughter during the pandemic, I not only was able to have an extremely peaceful birth, I also achieved my vbac ( vaginal birth after a c section) and learned how to embody the practice so much, I decided to become certified in the work to bring this gift to others. I have gone through a soul transformation and I’ll never be the same in the best way. Breathwork, I believe allows us to come home to ourselves & return to true divine homeostasis in the body and allows us to embody, surrender and then transform fully as an individual. I learned how powerful I truly am and we all are when we allow ourselves to receive this.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.alilevine.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alilevinedesign Https://www.Instagram.com/breatheandbalilevine
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/alilevinedesign
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alilevinedesign
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/alilevinedesign
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/alilevinedesign
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@alilevinedesignhttps://www.Pinterest.com/alilevinedesign https://www.Instagram.com/awakeningwithali
- Breathe & B: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breathe-and-b/id6446133046
Image Credits
Steve Zak