We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Erynn Grady a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Erynn, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Parents can play a significant role in affecting how our lives and careers turn out – and so we think it’s important to look back and have conversations about what our parents did that affected us positive (or negatively) so that we can learn from the billions of experiences in each generation. What’s something you feel your parents did right that impacted you positively.

My parents really instilled a sense of dedication and commitment, a work ethic that has shaped my own approach to not only work but to my life overall. The ethic can be distilled into one phrase that I heard many times as a kid: caring for those at the mercy of others, care in general, is a privilege. My dad was a paramedic for around 30 years. He educated countless emergency responders, rescued people, recovered burned bodies, and helped implement programs in several areas. My mom is a nurse practitioner, whom I saw raise herself through depression, the trials of attaining degrees, and discovery of self along the way. Through their successes and mistakes my parents walk their talk of love, growth, accountability, and service to community. There is no one single story that stands out, and no one moment can encompass or sum up the wisdom they’ve given. Through every era of my life I have been inspired by their strength.

The older I get (and the more internal work I do), the more my focus becomes gratitude. There are a lot of spaces where I felt unequipped or even neglected; as I come into greater recognition of myself I see my parents more wholly, and I recognize the blessings more clearly. The human condition is something we all experience. I, like my parents, am called to service. I’m learning how to balance that with a more full life. Commitment and dedication are elements of willpower, and because of my parents I truly believe that my dedication will move me forward and allow me to bless others even more deeply.

Erynn, 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?

For those new to me, I’m Miss Honey! Also known simply as Honey, or my pen name H.H. Jupitera.

I am an author, medium, teacher, Universal Life Church minister, artist, and early childhood educator. My various work backgrounds have all been an essential part of my spiritual path unfolding, from cafe management to retail to end of life care. I am most recognizable as a devotional author and spiritualist providing consultation sessions, divinations, and musings on ancestral veneration, craft, and conjure. Over the years I’ve built an organic following online, especially on Twitter. Whether online or in person I’ve always enjoyed reading for folks, especially for those seeking to truly grow. Whether you book a session with me or not, I’ve made sure to share something you can benefit from. I love that my work puts food on my table, I love even more that it can help put food on another’s table as well. Alongside the lessons of dedication my parents instilled generosity early on, so giving back is pillar of the Chapel of Honey (this is what I call my ongoing body of work and astral temple, someday a brick-and-mortar for praise).

I recently self-published my first book, Honey: Mini Guide To A Sweet Life, on Amazon. It’s a sweet and simple prayerbook with devotional essays, recipes, and journal space. Additionally, I run a blog on Substack (look for H.H. Jupitera) with in-depth writings on saints, prayer, God, and Conjure. My work is rooted in my own lifelong vocation, the exploration of and relationship with my gifts, the intersections of life. I am deeply interested in the shared journey of abused plants and peoples, which I am working on a book about. The human condition, our roots and fears and motivations are all fascinating to me. God, in all the ways we may conceive of them, is fascinating to me. I think what really draws others to me is that I honestly and relentlessly pursue closeness to Divinity but in a way that always seeks and often succeeds in making larger spiritual concepts and mysteries more accessible and reachable. I feel blessed to offer assistance through small group sessions, individual meetings, commissioned art, and writing. My goal is always to equip, assist, intercede, teach.

To be entirely honest I’m not sure what I’m most proud of, perhaps the entirety of the last year. My book is the simple guide I set out to make, but my blog has me seeing myself in a more serious light. The feedback from people about how my devotion, passion, curiosity, has helped them tends to feed my heart for a week. Like anyone I love recognition, and I am driven in a somewhat obsessive way to my work. Feedback that says I helped someone navigate their own rebirth or helped them connect to God in their own way, or connect to their Ancestors…that feeds me, grounds me, reminds me of my “why.”

How did you build your audience on social media?

Consistency! That one word really sums up what I think a key tool is. Without consistency in posting and in brand image you will lose out on building your core base or attracting anyone new. I’ve been working from social media for about ten years, my best success has come in the last year. So what changed?

First, let’s rewind. About four years ago I started yet another Twitter account, this time with clear intention and greater self knowledge. Knowing which platform most naturally fits your posting style and energy is essential, because if you can’t comfortably click in that digital space your work will be harder. So in 2020 I created the account I currently use. Starting from scratch I would post about my interests, my spiritual work, and some musings. A key for me alongside consistency is sincerity; I didn’t pretend to know everything, displayed interest in others. Twitter is a digital landscape I am suited to.

Once you figure out your best digital landscape consistency is utmost priority. Consistent posting, themes, colors, style of speech. In my arena of Spiritual Twitter or in any field, you need to pick a core starting lane. This is how people will find you. I changed handle names a few times but once I landed on Honey and decided to move with it, that was it. Once clients began consistently addressing me as Honey, I knew I was in a longterm space. Making your socials all consistent as possible in header and profile design is necessary. If you’ve ever worked retail, and forgive the manipulation, you know you have to train customers. Layout, colors, themes, keywords that are part of your brand personality are some of your training tools.

As you build your following consider a booking site and/or newsletter. These look and sound professional, can help your work be more organized, offer a space to flesh out the brand identity, and updates to these spaces allow for rollout of new studies. My brand as Miss Honey is solid enough in all the core areas that when I branch out I not only keep my clients but gain new ones.

The best advice I got, which lined up with a lifelong internal message (that pesky vocation again!), came from a mediumship session. I was told I would be seen, interviewed, sought out. To put my work out no matter who saw it if anyone did, who received it. Just keep building your body of work and your presence.

Any fun sales or marketing stories?

This is a fairly recent story, and it’s on my mind often. The sale that blessed me without a single pitch.

The odds stacked against me were internal more than anything else. I have been accustomed to external stresses for a long time, but internal pressures got hands like no other. After years of start and stop blogs, inconsistent manuscript work, all but dropping out of my writing mentor group I felt the push again to sit down and write. I had been shoving the feeling down for days, sitting at my desk with an open pen, blank page, heart racing. Not even a coherent 140 characters would flow, the kind of stagnancy you know must be faced head on. Writing has been my dream for the better part of my life, and I was in another rut of “not good enough,” and “won’t ever finish anything,” with a touch of “doesn’t know the material.”

I sat down at my desk. I dug out pale aqua earbuds and queued up Monaleo’s Ass Kickin’, putting the track on repeat. I sat down and made myself type in a way that felt like weeping, in a way that seemed to pierce me. Following dreams can expose internal wounds. I was in a space that felt like a breaking point, refusing to go another year without publishing or moving tangibly toward my dream. I used the song as an anchor to keep going, calling myself out in spaces and uplifting in others. At the end of that first post I went and made a prayer, one that really shifted my perspective. I said “Holy Creator and my own essence, if this devotional writing is my lane show me through financial means.”

Just that. If it is for me, show me financially. At the time of that first post I was down to my last few dollars, resting in faith, and choosing to tackle my internal blockages. I wrote and I prayed. I woke up the next morning to an annual paid subscriber who had chosen a subscription fee significantly higher than the annual cost (Substack allows the client to choose a higher offering). The following week I had another paid subscriber, and currently that number is more than doubled. This is addition to 75 more regular subscribers many of whom have become divination clients.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://snipfeed.co/misshoneymagick
• Twitter: https://x.com/MissHoneyMagick
• Other: https://mhoney.substack.com/

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