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

Hi Heather, thanks for joining us today. Looking back on your career, have you ever worked with a great leader or boss? We’d love to hear about the experience and what you think made them such a great leader.

I love to learn in such a way that I fully immerse myself into the experience I am having with a teacher and then when my cup is full I go away and spend many months integrating, asking questions (either to myself or back at my teacher), playing with the materials offered until I arrive at a point where the teachings feel like my own and I am ready to share them with others.

It is for this reason that I do not work with a plethora of teachers, but rather a handful over my lifetime, they are deep wells of wisdom and knowledge. My most memorable teacher is Ally Bogard. What I love about her leadership is that she allows herself to be in the conversation with us students rather than above or outside. She has a tremendous ability to pull golden threads out from someone’s share and speak to it in a way that is relatable for everyone and uncovers a potential blindspot for them.

One such occasion for myself was when I was in a group container with her and reached out because although I felt called to be sitting in this circle with her, I did not feel I was there to necessary ‘fix’ anything within me. So began the unravelling of our conversation leading me to the place where she asked ‘how to you relate to yourself in moments of awe or wonderment?’ ‘Do you interrupt the awe in anyway?’ I had to pause for a moment because the question had never occurred to me. When I reflected I shared that ‘yes, I find when I am in a moment of awe-filled I will sometimes try to put it off for later when it is more appropriate, or interrupt the awe when it reaches a limit that is uncomfortable for me.’ So this began my invitation.

How can I expand the moments of awe to let more in, to increase the tolerance for awe , joy or wonderment or even raise the ceiling to higher limits. What has reflected back to me since this aha moment is that I now work with clients in the same way. How can we give more attention to the parts of ourselves that want to grow and expand into our becoming rather than becoming addicted to what needs fixing/healing. Not to bypass those very precious moments but to rather hold space in equal measure to the opposite light filled experiences.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The field of consciousness has always been a precious pulse within me. As as I child I was introduced through the Catholic Church which never really quenched my thirst but I appreciated very much gathering people together for a common theme, sitting together in stillness, praising life and revering ritual and ceremony.

In my teens and early twenties nature was my God kingdom. Working as a river guide and forest fire fighter and in my off time hiking, mountain biking and snowboarding. I also leaned into meditation and self-taught some yoga poses. By my early twenties I decided to work with a teacher and enrolled in a yoga teacher training. The first day of my training started with a yoga class, it was the first time I stepped into a yoga studio and my first formally led class, It’s so wild to reflect back on that now. Keep in mind this was back in early 200, before yoga studios were on every street corner.

This was where all the parts of me got to come together under one roof. Body prayer through asana provided my need to feel connected through the physical. I was so naive I didn’t even know that meditation was a part of yoga (they had been separate for me up until this point). So this discovery in my training was a delicious delight. I always led, even when young being captain of teams and presidents of student councils so this part was in me. However, I was used to leading from my extraverted self. I was an outdoor guide and sports player so learning to lead from my more introverted and tender parts of myself took time but was such a soft way to come back home into my feminine nature. I had been so immersed in my masculine for so many years I was exhausted. Becoming a yoga teacher weaved all the myriad parts of my personality and gave them an arena to all have a voice in. I rode the wave of yoga teacher for over twenty years. Leaning retreats, workshops and classes around North America.

A colleague one day asked ‘what about all those that could benefit from your offerings but don’t practice yoga?’ This really got me curious and at the same time I was hungry to be unbound by the confines of a yoga teacher. I wanted to go deeper and further with students. I began too long for the ability to work more intimately with people and offer services outside of the yoga container.

When pandemic hit, studios closed opportunity came in. I used the invitation for less distraction to go into my own cocoon and see what wanted to be revealed. Over a few nights of evening meditations a name that I knew kept popping in so I acted on it and reached out. I shared that her name kept coming up in meditation and asked her if she had any suggestions as to where to take it from here. She suggested I have an Akashic Session with her. That’s when the Akashic Records came into my life. Akasha in Sanskrit means spirit/space which directly translates to consciousness or quantum field. Each of us has an energetic blueprint of our soul’s timeline. How I work with the Akashic Records is I connect in with someone’s divine fingerprint and help shine a light into the nature of their essence/spirit and what their purpose in life is at this time. Our purpose, like us, is fluid and ever-changing… I support individuals that want to align, ascend or simply communicate with the space of the non-physical realm.

Currently I work 1:1 with individuals, as a mentor, I teach others how to read the Akashic Records (this augments and expands people’s current vocations. I often work with councillors, CEO’s, doctors and even real estate agents) and love to still offer an in person experience through retreat where we immerse in the experience of the divine through innocence, wilderness and the mystic (yoga, nature, meditation).

Problems that I help solve for people is the belief that some are designed to connect to source and others are not. That they are not good at meditation or not able to connect to energy or Source. It’s a skillset like anything else and what sets me apart is that I can see someone’s innate way of being able to connect and this is where I teach them from. For example is someone is an empath I will be guiding them on how to FEEL the signs and signals rather than asking them what they see. This is what sets me apart. It’s a personalized experience….and EVERYONE that has worked with me in my Akashic Records program can read the records by the time we are complete.

What I am most proud of in this moment of inquiring is the level of love that I have offered myself in life. It is unconditional and continues to be one of my greatest. teachers as a parent, lover and mentor for others.

What I would love others to know is that by the time you have arrived at the point of meeting me , either through this article or beyond by peeking into my website, I have been planning for your arrival in advance and am celebrating your courageous ascent. You have landed safely and I look forward to sharing time and space with you.

How did you put together the initial capital you needed to start?

This story is a gooder!

So after teaching for about 20 years I was definitely masterful at my work, had impact on many people’s lives and loved loved loved what I did. Problem was I was making nearly enough money to support my family. For twenty years I made less than $4,000/month. I would justify this by telling myself I was the primary caregiver for my children and my husband was the breadwinner. However the mind is smart, it can’t be tricked and by the age of 40 I was having hard time convincing myself that this was ok.

So I reached a breaking point and went into meditation and just asked ‘should I call it day and go drive truck in the local mine?’ The response was ‘no, but you do need to go eye to eye with your money story and clean that sh*t up’

The very next week a teacher who’s monthly mentorship portal I was a part of brought on a money coach. I’m not kidding. At the end of the interview which lit me up my teacher asked ‘so what do you say to the client that wants to work with you but can’t afford to?’ she said ‘reach out and we will talk.’

I interpreted this to mean that she had some sort of bursary or scholarship I could tap into. So I booked a call. The call alone cost $300 I didn’t have. When we talked and moved into the part of payment for her services I should have known if her cost to talk to people was $300 her coaching fees would be higher than I could imagine. So when she told me her fees were $40,000 for three months I almost fell over. I watched myself say yes knowing that her fees were more than I made in a year and I had less than $400 in my bank account. When I shared my plan with wobbly knees to my husband his response was so sweet ‘if anyone deserves to make more money it’s you my love, go for it.’ PS he was not going to pay this off for me, we didn’t have a combined income to allow for this backbone to my risk.

I reached out to a bookkeeping friend and asked if she knew of a way I could gather the money. She mentioned a bank that was designed for small business and didn’t ask too many questions, in other words high interest rates. I decided to apply for a loan and if approved I would keep going.

Well I got approved. I swear the biggest transformation came when I paid in full. There was no other option than to succeed. I did EVERYTHING she suggested and as a result cleaned up my money story, paid off my loan in 5 months and moved my income from less that $30,000 in a year to $230,000 in less than 18 months. Been steadily climbing since.

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

Giving them a chance to experience me. My most effective way of gathering clients is by clients hearing me speak. So I do lots of podcast interviews and am a guest in other people’s platforms so that people can get exposure to me.

From there I invite people to have a chat with me if they are interested in an offering but hesitant to commit. I allow the call to be a service to them not to me. If I can sense that they can benefit from my services I will share my offerings with them. If I feel they would benefit from a colleague of mine or something different entirely then I refer them in that direction.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.heatherivany.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather_ivany/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEuFyWemmUk6Dm4i_edb6dw