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

Alright, Elizabeth thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

Last summer, I was all set to go back to school to become a therapist, but the universe had another path for me. I had spent months researching which type of therapy degree I wanted (I landed on Marriage and Family), applied to my top choice schools, got accepted and was all set to begin my next chapter. After spending nearly a decade as an NBC reporter, then another 8 years as an entrepreneur, and three years during Covid staying home with my kids, this felt like a perfect next step. And yet…

For about 4 years I had been on an intense and deeply personal spiritual journey into the sacred feminine, training in-depth in archetypal frequencies, inner alchemy and the art of anointing, learning how to find my own centerpoint, embody authentic power, and hold sacred space for myself and others. I kept deepening into this work in any way I could without any intended goal except to learn and grow. I had no intention to create a business from it.

But in a few moments this past July, everything changed. I was swimming in the ocean with my daughter at the beach I’d gone to since I was a kid off the coast of Long Island. My cousin, an excellent swimmer, was swimming with my son. The current was pretty strong that day, the shelf had moved overnight so it was very close to shore. We’d been in about 20 minutes when my cousin took my son to shore. I noticed my daughter was starting to get tired, but as we were about to swim in, a series of waves caught us. One after another, the biggest waves of the day crashed down. We couldn’t find a break long enough to get in, and we were out well past the shelf, so we couldn’t touch the bottom.

After a couple of these big waves, I realized my daughter wasn’t able to swim anymore, and she was holding onto my shoulder pulling me down. All 60 pounds of her. I fought to keep us above water and started calculating how much longer I could stay afloat when another series of waves started. We ducked under one more, me using every ounce of my strength to get us through it, and I let out a sound I’d never made before, a kind of primal howl. It got my cousin’s attention and he raced back into the water. I was able to safely get my daughter into his hands.

And in that moment, I experienced a feeling I’ve never had before. I guess you could call it surrender. It was beyond peace, beyond ecstasy. I knew I had nothing left, not an ounce of energy. Yet, with my daughter safe, I knew that I’d done all that I needed to and trusted that whatever happened next would be perfect. I said to the ocean, “take me home.” I honestly didn’t know or need to know whether that meant back to shore or not. I simply surrendered fully and completely to the water.

The next thing I remembered I was crawling out of the water, sand squishing through my fingers. I was alive. I couldn’t even talk about those moments for weeks, but what I knew for sure in that moment that I emerged from the water, was that the woman who went into the water for a swim with my daughter that day was not the same woman who came out. I was different on a cellular level. I felt alive in a new way, like there was no more need to prove anything to anyone and that I had no choice but to be my authentic self.

By early August I knew I wasn’t going back to school to become a therapist. I had already been in “higher education” for the last 4 years. I knew in my bones that the most valuable thing I could ever offer would be to hold sacred space for women to remember who they are and to guide them to create lives more sacred and inspired than they could imagine. I had all the skills. I’d done all the training. The only thing left was for me to stop hiding and surrender to the truth of who I am. And after those moments in the ocean with my daughter, it wasn’t even a choice anymore, it was simply the next step.

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?

I help women remember who they are so they can create a truly sacred and intentional life.

I’m a ceremonialist, a priestess and sacred space holder with training from the 13 Moon Mystery School. I’m the temple keeper of Lavender and an anointer through Rosa Mystica, using holy oils from the Emerald Temple. I’m also a Certified Temple Guide and an archetypal mentor in the Priestess Presence School of Sacred Arts. I offer in-person gatherings and one on one sacred rituals. I’m here to help you reconnect to your soul wisdom so that you can return to yourself, your brilliance, and your forgotten wisdom.

Here’s what I know for sure: we spend most of our lives in our minds, thinking through our days.
Our culture is so focused on mental intelligence that most of us have forgotten how to feel… we have to relearn how to be in our bodies, train ourselves how to quiet our overworked minds and constantly destress from all of the overstimulation.

I believe there’s a different way. A way to feel truly, deeply alive. And it begins with forgetting all that we think we have figured out, being willing to embrace the unknown and dance with the mystery of life.

See, when we have stripped away all of the importance of our thinking minds and have dropped instead into our bodies, we can awaken what I call our soul voice. That inner-compass, that deep knowing rooted in the truth of our ancestors and pulsing in every cell of our bodies. We have forgotten how to listen to ourselves, how to feel our deepest desires, how to honor the truest and most beautiful parts of ourselves. Let’s remember together.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

In TV news, we were always focused on what the viewers wanted. We were asked to change our hair, try different clothes, change the way we spoke, learn to write stories in a different way all in an effort to be more appealing to our audience. So, the lesson I learned right out oof college was that it was my job to shape myself around what others needed and wanted. My role was to fit neatly into a particular box. And I was successful at it.

That lesson served me until it didn’t. One morning about 3 years ago, I remember screaming in the carpool line after dropping off my kids… I felt like there had to be more to my life than what I was experiencing. I’d checked all the boxes of what I thought I wanted with my amazing husband, our beautiful home and our two healthy children. Yet I wasn’t fulfilled. I felt barely alive. I realized in that moment I had so skillfully and thoroughly squeezed myself into the box of who I thought I should be, becoming what I thought a mother and wife was supposed to be like, that I had totally lost any sense of myself. My needs were buried so deeply behind those of my children and husbands that I couldn’t even find them anymore.

I spent the next three years rediscovering myself, remembering who I am and relearning how to trust my own inner knowing. I found my center and learned how to feel in my body what was in integrity for me and what’s not. I learned what authentic power felt like in my bones and experienced how love could transform. And slowly, I came home to myself.

I now know that I cannot shove myself into any box. Instead, my new definition of success is creating a life that requires me to live in my fullest expression and be in tune with my deepest desires.

What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?

I would say there are three things.

1. Offer extraordinary value consistently. Create experiences for your clients that are so juicy they can’t help but share about them.

2. Stay curious and ask for lots of feedback. I am always reaching out for feedback after creating ceremonies. I love hearing why each woman chose to step into this work and what they got out of it.

3. Build authentic relationships. I truly care about the women I get to guide in ceremony and I love staying in touch with them, not to mention creating new opportunities for them to deepen into the work.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.elizabethbrett.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethsbrett/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elliesbrett

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