We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Euda k. Best a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Euda k. thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Most of my offerings are tools that I used to help remember/heal myself. I did not learn them to start my business I learned them to help create a life I love and eventually realized that I should offer them to help others create lives they love.

Since leaving my corporate job as a software engineer I’ve been learning to release control and find surrender/flow to the point that even my business is rooted in being open to receive and going with the flow more than trying to control/force outcomes.

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?

Hmmm. Well, I guess I will start by saying that I grew up in a home with a handsome and charismatic father who used drugs for most of my young life and a mother who was loving and talented, but disillusioned by the life she felt she had been handed. She was very hard working and until I was about 14 she was always trying to learn something new that might help her make more money to help offset the financial drain my father and his habits represented.

When I was 14, my father finally talked her into taking crack with him so until I moved out at 17, I lived with two crack addicted parents and a sweet, protective younger brother who to this day will give his last dollar to a homeless person even when that means he will have to go without.

Needless to say, my parents were too distracted to pay much attention to us but I was an “excellent student” so I got a lot of attention from my teachers and spent most of my time outside of school with my head in a book and my heart and mouth closed until I was old enough to work. Then I worked as much as I possibly could while maintaining good grades.

Everyone raved about how smart I was, especially given my circumstances, so I always thought I was doing the right thing by focusing so much of my time and energy on school. Frankly, it was the only thing I knew to do, but what I know now is that being really good at doing all the things school and society told me to do meant that I would not know myself well enough to know what would make me happy.

So eight years or so into what society would call a successful engineering career, I left my cushy corporate job in search of happiness.

First, I found meditation, astrology and a divination system called Cardology which would help me to get to know myself and eventually help me help others get to know themselves. Then I found yoga, which would help me find acceptance of myself and comfortability in my skin.

Then Covid happened and I figured out how to use social media and all my “tools” to pay my bills. That worked until the end of 2021 or so then I started looking for another tool and found Magnetic Mind (MM) Coaching.

In Apr of 2022 I began working on my MM Coaching Certification. In September of 22 I was inspired to start a 12 week coaching course and by the end of November I had seven folks enrolled. Since then, I have learned a lot, changed the title of the course from “surviving To THRIVING in 90 days” to “The Conscious EVOLution Course” and everytime I think it’s time to launch a “real” marketing campaign word of mouth kicks in and I get a new roster of clients.

I have yet to attract the long-term lover of my dreams, but I am truly in love with every other aspect of my life and I KNOW it’s just a matter of time before my lover makes himself known.

I am now in the process of getting back into podcasting/radio/TV (which I have dabbled in off & on since 2009) so I can share the things I’ve learned with a much larger audience instead of being solely focused on one-on-one interactions. Please wish me luck, alignment and more flow. :)

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Lately, the most rewarding aspect of being an artist is realizing that it’s been almost four years since I’ve had to work a 9-5! It has been a harrowing journey, but I can’t help but smile about the way I am able to live my life these days.

It is my mission to own the fullness of my power to create a life I love and I’m doing it!

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I intend to help as many people as possible remember who they are!

Contact Info:

• Website: EudaKBest.com
• Instagram: @HelloRandomRadio & @EudaKBest
• Other: Linktr.ee/eudakbest

Image Credits
Main photo by Spade Archer Photography