Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Celeste Gluz. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Celeste, thanks for joining us today. If you’re open to it, can you talk to us about the best (or worst) investment you’ve made. What’s the backstory and the relevant context behind why you made the investment

We invested our life savings into opening a brick and mortar in Hawai’i. It was an amazing experience but it also taught me what I can’t do and what is not sustainable for me. We ended up closing it and moving it online! Best decision ever that cost the most amount of money, time and effort!

Celeste, 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?

how you got into your industry / business / discipline / craft etc,
The industry came to me. I had a very profound and lengthy spiritual awakening which made it very difficult to navigate simple daily commitments and responsibilities. I had to let go of all ideas of what I believed I was supposed to do in this lifetime and surrender to what was being presented.

what type of products/services/creative works you provide,
I run an online school that supports women on their spiritual journey. The School of Feminine Initiatory Arts supports women in integrating the feminine spiritual path into daily life while reclaiming ancient alchemical wisdom.
I am also an energy and sound practitioner, so I work in 1-on-1 and group settings.

what problems you solve for your clients and/or what you think sets you apart from others.

The spiritual path, although gaining popularity, can be quite confusing and disruptive for yourself and your loved ones. For me, it was a very lengthy process of understanding what was happening, grounding my gifts, integrating back into the world, and understanding how reclaiming feminine wisdom would be a part of all that.
I support women in reclaiming feminine wisdom which looks and feels very different from what the feminine movement may have you think. The power and wisdom of the feminine have been very misunderstood and many women intuitively know this, that’s perhaps why they dont’ engage with it. My approach integrates the highest crystalline forces and the depths of the dark mother. We integrate the wisdom in put it to use in practical everyday life because that’s the true practice of it. There is no renunciation of daily responsibilities, looking ‘down’ on others who do not walk the same path as you or pretend that positive thinking and new moon rituals will ‘save us’ from putting the true work into practice.
I’ve had to learn this myself and am passionate about sharing it with other women. It is the center point of our strength – reclaiming the wisdom of the heart and womb.

What are you most proud of and what are the main things you want potential clients/followers/fans to know about you/your brand/your work/ etc.

Following my soul’s calling and doing it alongside my partner. To experience the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, knowing that it was all for the sake of growing together and creating a stronger relationship where we can understand each other, support each other in our gifts and walk an ancient path of remembering who we truly are in our fullest Essence.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I had to close my brick-and-mortar earlier this year (Jan 2024) after managing it long-distance (from hawai’i to NY) for a year. I was asked to walk away from a life-long dream, in alot of debt, with many people turned against me while believing in the higher mission and guidance of what was to come.

Although it was a ‘temple space’ that anchored so much healing work, experiencing the realities of ‘spiritual communities’ and the backlash of talk that happens to anyone in leadership was incredibly humbling and a turning point in my life.

Since then, I have taken a hard look at what I really want my life and service to look like. I’ve put my life, health and home first and my business second and it has been a blessing in disguise. We’ve rebuilt our lives to be stable, balanced and harmonious and that is of the highest value to me in this point of my life.

I see now looking back how I had put the business in front of my health, my home, and my relationships. I had a hustle mindset that I learned very early on in my life. I believed that the harder I worked, that more deserving and worthy I was.

Today, I strive for the opposite. I am devoted to being more by doing less, and it works.
I run an online school with a sustainable business model where I get to show up in a healthy and nourished way. Not only that, I have time to do what is most important to me, which is to continue to study and grow in the field of energy, sound, and feminine esoteric wisdom.

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

Growing up as a Latin immigrant, I come from a very distorted work ethic. My value system was originally based on what how much I ‘accomplished’, how hard I worked for it, how many hours I put in and how many customers I had. It came from lack and fear which I was meant to move through. There was never any amount of work that deemed me worthy of rest. This was of course the recipe for absolute burnout which took over 1.5 years to recover from.

Today I realize my work is who I AM inside and the less I stress and deplete myself, the more successful I AM as a whole.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.celestegluz.com/
• Instagram: celestegluz1111
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CelesteGluz1111
• Other: Divine Feminine Ascension Blog & Podcast:

  Blog: https://divinefeminineascension.com/
  Podcast: https://celestegluz1111.buzzsprout.com/