We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Asta Malciute. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Asta below.

Hi Asta, thanks for joining us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

I believe life offers us many defining moments – those uncomfortable, often unexpected places where we’re stretched beyond our comfort zone and invited to grow. They become thresholds, the space in-between where we were and who we’re becoming. Looking back, I’ve had many across relationships, health, and career, but there is one moment in my professional path that changed everything.
In 2010, just one week after receiving my bachelor’s degree in law from university in Lithuania, I said yes to an adventure that would change my life. I packed my bags, left everything familiar behind, and moved to the United States. I arrived with zero English, just a few hundred dollars in my pocket, and nothing but love in my heart. I had fallen in love and chose to follow it across the ocean. It was one of the most courageous and uncertain decisions of my life, but it showed me early on that stepping into the unknown is where we grow.
Over the years, I built what many would call the “immigrant dream.” From those humble beginnings, I eventually created a successful logistics and transportation safety consulting business. On paper, I had stability and success. But in 2014, everything stopped. A health scare – discovering a tumor – forced me to pause and ask myself questions I had never dared to ask: Who am I really? What do I want to contribute to this world? Is the work I’m doing nourishing my soul or only my bank account?
That moment cracked me open. I immersed myself in years of self-development, psychology, spiritual practices, and healing work. And what I discovered is that no single approach holds all the answers – true transformation is holistic. It takes mind, body, and soul together.
I felt a strong pull to share what I was learning, and to support others the way I had been supported. By 2018, I knew it was time to make a complete shift. I left the logistics industry behind and devoted myself fully to helping women – women who, like me, might have looked “successful” on the outside yet felt unfulfilled, burned out, or disconnected on the inside.
That defining moment wasn’t just about changing careers. It was about embracing my mission: to create safe spaces where women can reconnect to themselves, remember who they are, and reclaim their unique gifts and power.

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?

In 2017, I made the decision to leave the logistics industry. I began preparing – saving, making a plan, and deepening my skills through studies, coaching, and healing work. By 2018, I was ready to fully transition and devote myself to a new mission: creating safe and sacred spaces for women to reconnect, remember, and reclaim their unique gifts and power.
This work was born out of my own healing journey. For years I immersed myself in psychology, therapy, energy healing, spiritual practices, meditation, and somatic modalities. What I discovered is that transformation is never one-dimensional. True change happens when we integrate the mind (coaching, rewiring limiting beliefs), the body (somatic release breathwork, nervous system regulation), and the soul (energy healing, ritual, spiritual connection). That holistic approach is at the heart of everything I do.
Today, I guide women through one-on-one mentorship, women’s circles, wellness retreats, somatic breathwork, and energy healing practices. One of the most meaningful aspects of this work is sisterhood – because healing doesn’t happen in isolation. When women gather in safe, sacred spaces, something extraordinary happens: walls come down, shame dissolves, and women remember that they are not alone. The transformation that unfolds in these circles ripples outward, touching families, communities, and workplaces.
Over time, I also realized that these practices are just as needed in professional environments. Many of the women I serve are corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives. Even when they love what they do, they face immense stress. Stress itself is unavoidable, but when it isn’t processed, it becomes suppressed – and suppressed stress eventually shows up as burnout, disconnection, or even depression. Too often we treat symptoms with “band-aid solutions,” but the root lies deeper: in the body, in the nervous system, in the emotions we carry but never release.
That’s why I am passionate about bringing holistic wellness and somatic practices into corporate settings. Through workshops, retreats, and programs, I help leaders and teams release stress, regulate their nervous systems, and return to clarity and resilience.
Whether I am guiding a woman in a private session, holding space for a circle of sisters, or facilitating a corporate retreat, my mission is the same: to create safe spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, remember who they are, and reclaim their unique gifts.
I’ve lived through burnout, disconnection, and the defining moments that forced me to reimagine my path. Because of that, I know that real transformation doesn’t come from one tool or a quick fix – it comes from weaving body, mind, and soul together. That is the heart of my work, and it is what I am most proud to share.
At the center of everything I do is this truth: when women rise together in sisterhood, we don’t just transform our own lives – we transform the world around us.

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

One of the biggest lessons I had to unlearn is that the only way to succeed is to work harder and harder, no matter the cost.
I grew up with the belief – one many of us are taught – that in order to earn a good living, you have to sacrifice, push yourself, and work endless hours. That belief served me for a time. As an immigrant with no safety net, I worked relentlessly. In the logistics industry, I took on extra contracts, worked late nights, and pushed myself beyond my limits. On paper, it worked: I built a successful business, achieved stability, and created the life I thought I wanted. But inside, I was burning out. The harder I worked, the more disconnected I felt from myself and what truly mattered.
That burnout became a turning point. I realized that productivity on its own wasn’t enough – it was draining me rather than sustaining me. As I transitioned into building a mission-led business, I came to understand that yes, dedication and discipline are still required, but there’s a different way to approach it. My schedule can’t run only on deadlines; it has to honor my own rhythms, my health, my relationships, and my energy.
Today I know that rest, breath, and nourishment are not luxuries – they are part of the work. Running a soul-led business still requires commitment and effort, but it’s about aligning that effort with flow, presence, and sustainability, not endless grind. That shift is what allows me to create from a place of fullness rather than depletion.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

Training and knowledge are incredibly important in my field – especially when we talk about trauma-informed practices. Having the right skills means being aware of contraindications, creating safe containers, and knowing how to responsibly guide people through deep healing work. But as essential as knowledge is, I’ve found that it isn’t enough on its own.
What truly matters is embodiment. It’s not about only learning the techniques, it’s about living them. I’ve learned the most not just from books or trainings, but from my own experiences of practicing, receiving feedback, and becoming a “product of the product.” When I sit down every day to breathe, reconnect with my own body, and move out of my head and into my heart, I’m not just practicing for myself – I’m strengthening my ability to hold space for others.
Clients feel the difference when you’re teaching from a place of lived experience versus theory alone. They can sense whether you’re speaking only from the mind and the certification, or whether you are grounded in your own body, intuition, and truth. For women especially, this means trusting the wisdom of the body and intuition – knowing when to follow the book, but also when to listen deeply and respond in a creative, intuitive way.
In the end, what’s most helpful in this field is not just knowing the work, but being the work. Living it, breathing it, embodying it. That’s what creates the safety, authenticity, and depth that true transformation requires.

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