We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jill Blanchard. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jill below.
Jill, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We love heartwarming stories – do you have a heartwarming story from your career to share?
I had just started my hypnotherapy practice and was taking any clients I could. I knew that my practice was just one part of my career journey. I saw myself opening an office for my practice and having space where I could use/ rent space to support other small businesses grow. Being an entrepreneur is an amazing journey, but can also feel very isolating, so I knew building community and creating a meaningful space was going to be essential to not only my success but for others. I was asked to interview on a local podcast to talk about my work with hypnotherapy, and in that conversation with Alex Wilson, my now business partner, we realized we had the same goals to build space for community and collaboration. She had recently taken over a yoga studio, formerly known as Heart Space Yoga Collective. We learned that the space next to Heart Space was open for lease, she hired me to design the space for our shared idea of a coworking space, and we easily became business partners in what is now Ritual Yoga and Wellness Space.
This is a dream that I have held for years before I ever knew I would become a hypnotherapist. This is proof that whatever is in your heart, whatever you want to create for yourself is real and will happen as long as you follow your path and what feels good. What is for you will never pass you by…and as cliche as that may seem, I am living proof that it’s the Truth, and for that I am grateful!
Jill, 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?
I was living and working in Philadelphia during the 2020 pandemic. I had an incredibly stressful job in public education and was struggling to feel well in all aspects of my life. Life was slowing down with the shutdown and I had a lot of time to look at my life and ask myself how I wanted to live if I got through this pandemic in one piece. In quarantine, I read a book called ‘Many Lives, Many Masters’ by Dr. Brian Weiss, where he told his story about realizing the healing power of Past Life Regression therapy. It inspired me in a time of feeling extreme loss and a need for meaning. I eventually moved to Florida to be closer to my family in the summer of 2021, and I had my first past life regression session. It was such a meaningful experience for me intellectually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, I knew that I wanted to learn how to do this to support myself and others.
I found my way to HMI College, based out of Los Angeles, studied to be a hypnotherapist for over a year, and launched my practice in 2022. Past Life Regression will always be my first love and the bread and butter of my practice. Pat Life Regression therapy is a hypnotic journey that allows you to explore past lives to understand yourself, your relationships, and the experiences that you are having in this life. Can I tell you that you are experiencing a past life during these sessions? As a clinical hypnotherapist I have no data to prove that to you, however, this kind of hypnotic journey is a POWERFUL tool and metaphor to gain perspective and healing to some of our most challenging questions and experiences. The compassion you can offer yourself as you observe yourself as another in a different time and place not only allows you to connect more with your personal and spiritual journey, it can also help you foster more compassion for others on their journey. Everyone’s journey is sacred; this experience allows you to fall in love with the healing process and foster a deeper and more meaningful connection to your Self.
This journey has opened up a lot of opportunities to learn about the power and importance of subconscious healing. My practice is called BEcoming Home Healing Co. because we are continually realizing our connection with ourselves and have incredible opportunities every day to connect with our most authentic versions of ourselves and feel safe and at home in that presence. My goal with this work is to help remind you that you are in control because you have empowered choice. You have the empowered choice every day to practice being the observer of your experience, your thoughts, and your emotions. You are not your thoughts and your emotions, it is feedback into the experience you are having and you can choose how you want to feel/ what the quality of your thoughts are. Through consistent hypnotherapy and other self-regulation and reflection tools, you can change your perspective, your reality, and the quality of your life, You are in control.
I now focus on using my practice to support others develop leadership and personal development skills with a focus on supporting fellow intuitive women and people in business, creatives, and entrepreneurs. This path of self-discovery, especially when building your own business can feel fierce with lots of ups and downs. I have experienced this for myself (and still do, who am I kidding), so I find it to be a part of my mission to support others build trust, vision, and confidence on their purposeful business journey.
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
I had participated in a large vendor event called the Southwest Florida Wellness Fair to promote my new hypnotherapy practice in the Spring of 2023. Alex (my now business partner) is the owner of (what is formerly known as) Heart Space Yoga Collective and hosts this event on an annual basis. Before this event, she had signed up for a hypnotherapy session to try my service since I was new to the Wellness Fair community. A few months after the event she had connected with me and asked me to be on her podcast. It was an amazing conversation and we realized that we had similar values and professional goals. It wasn’t long after that we started talking about collaborating in business. There was a space that opened next to the yoga studio she owned and we made plans to take the space over and turn it into a conscious co-working space to support other small businesses to grow and build community. We started renovating mid-July 2023, soft opened Ritual Space in August 2023, and hard launched Ritual Wellness Space and Ritual Yoga Space (the rebrand of Heart Space Yoga Collective). Now we are co-creating with other amazing creatives, entrepreneurs and healers to build each other up, and create meaningful spaces for wellness, community, nd support in this wonderful and wild journey of self-employment.
This partnership with Alex has been an amazing journey and has allowed me to develop my skills in business leadership, build my practice with in-person sessions and retreats, and learn my love for interior design.
What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?
I stand behind the adage of “its not what you know, it’s who you know.” The most fulfilling experiences I have had with clients were when people were referred to me, met me, and there is an established relationship with people. Get out there, go to networking events, host events, talk to people about what you do, and allow them to get a feel for your work based on your love and energy behind your elevator pitch, or however else you are sharing your work with the world.
I have found for myself, too, making content where I am speaking to my experience doing this work, building a business, healing my subconscious mind, connecting with community, etc…gives something for people to relate to. I want to build a culture in my business of beautiful vulnerability, love, and joy in healing, and I want how I build my business to reflect and support that energy. Stay connected to your mission and it will unfold beautifully.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.becominghomehypnosis.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becominghomehealingco/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-blanchard-38626074/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTr9acYKXG1houEYdIWa-Q
- Other: Uncomfy Conversations Podcast https://sites.libsyn.com/489743
Image Credits
Alex Wilson (business partner), Dory Franklin (collaborator), Interior photos of Ritual Space,