We recently connected with Erin Anderson-Kipp and have shared our conversation below.
Erin , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.
In 2015, I started learning the difference between a career and a calling. Although I had enjoyed a long professional life as a content strategist, things changed when I discovered the benefits of well-being through mindfulness and energy healing. I leaned heavily on both as I worked through the emotional complexities of divorce, moving abroad, and job loss–all within a 5-year period. I realized I wanted to share with others the tools and techniques that had helped me so much. I searched, studied, and over time received certifications in reiki, aura clearing, and sound healing.
Through my local wellness community and clients, I learned of the hermetic Lineage of King Salomon, a tradition of metaphysics and healing that dates back thousands of years. Training in this tradition helped me take a long, hard look at the role I play in my own happiness. It taught me service to others is the foundation for joy. It taught me the first order of business we have as human beings is to know ourselves. I knew I had found both my calling and my community.
My clientele was growing slowly but steadily until Covid put a stop to me seeing my clients. During lockdown, I leaned more heavily on classes I could teach remotely. I also returned to the world of content strategy and user experience. Today, I do both! My life is a hybrid of my career AND my calling. I value both, and I’m clear on which is which.
That clarity allows me to show up in the corporate world as a brighter light for my colleagues. And it allows me to show up in the metaphysical world as someone who understands the demands of muggle life (as it were). In both directions, I get to practice empathy for others (and for myself). I’m grateful for the perspective and insights both afford me as someone who never wants to stop learning, growing, and pushing outside her comfort zone.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
From the time I hung up my shingle as an intuitive reader in 2015 to now, the level of awareness and acceptance toward the healing arts has undergone a massive shift. As with any practice gaining momentum, that wider acceptance has come with plenty of dabblers and New Age influencers. And while I support the evolution toward tolerance and interest in magick, I also see a lot of people skating on the surface of true healing efforts.
The healing services I offer come from an unbroken oral tradition of metaphysicians that require absolute dedication and fidelity to the methods as they were originally developed thousands of years ago. (There’s nothing “new age” about this lineage.) I am a vessel; I am not a content creator or influencer in any way, shape, or form. I bring my individuality to my healing art, but I don’t innovate. When I work with someone as a healer or teacher, they can trust they are receiving the healings with complete fidelity to the original divine blueprints.
And that divinity is what I seek to remind each of my clients of. Their royalty, their role in creating their reality. Regardless of the modality I’m using, I am ultimately returning to them the awareness of this divinity so they can do something amazing with their life, their love.
Some of the communities I serve are not as open to mysticism and magick. I’m able to meet them where they’re comfortable with techniques in mindful awareness and sound healing that calm the nervous system and offer self-guided tools for training resilience. I’m honored to offer such services in health care settings, residential mental health centers, senior living facilities, and more.
I’m proud of having created a livelihood out of my calling to serve others. It is a lifelong journey of looking deeper and deeper all the time into my heart, my motivations, my ego, and peeling back those layers to expose more of my real self.
Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?
Trusting my intuition. Time and again, I have seen the ways my clients and my business reflect the state of my thoughts and emotions. I’ve learned that when I act against my intuition I pay the price in my relationships with my clients and in the success of my business.
A small example: I once altered the wording of a description for one of my services on the advice of a client. She told me my description wasn’t doing the session justice, and that more people would want to sign up if I made it sound a little sexier. My gut told me to leave it the way I had it; I didn’t want to make guarantees or “oversell” the modality. But I decided to try her idea anyway.
Sure enough, I had more people ask me about the session. And they were all hung up on the wording as I had changed it. When it came time to do the session, they were frustrated because it didn’t do for them exactly the thing it had done for the other client. By going against my intuition (and the less-sexy truth as I saw it) I created confusion, complexity, and frustration in my clientele and in myself.
Because of the direct connection between my state of being and this highly energetic work I do, it’s easy to see how one affects the other. But I’ve taken the lesson into other areas of my life as well. In relationships, in health, in stability – I must act with consistency and integrity in all areas of my life. When I do, the path is clear and things move forward. When I don’t, I create churn and risk misunderstanding (within myself or with others).
What do you think helped you build your reputation within your market?
Getting out into the community and doing events. Expos, markets, conferences, collaborations. I have an online presence that helps expand things, but it really has been the in-person events I’ve done that have helped people get a feel for what to expect working with me.
Although this way of self-marketing is time-consuming and slow to build, I’m okay with that because of the nature of my work. I would much rather have a small client base of committed people who trust me and who understand how I can help them than I would a massive following with only a casual interest in healing work.
Saying that, of course, sometimes the interest does begin as a casual one and then over time, through posts, through word of mouth, it deepens. So I’m not advocating for only one or the other. But for me, the magick has been in the shared moments in the presence of others.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.thegoldrunner.com
- Instagram: @thegoldrunner
- Linkedin: Erin Anderson-Kipp
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