We recently connected with Lindsey Walker and have shared our conversation below.
Lindsey, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.
I came up with the idea for starting Soul Fam Wellness from experiencing my own health challenges years ago. As I began seeking help from different health professionals to find answers for myself, the entire experience became increasingly frustrating at the lack of empathy and answers I received. I would go to countless doctors and practitioners to put all the pieces together, while getting gaslit for how I was feeling along the way. Once I found the true root cause of illness (which is a combination of being overburdened by toxins, slow drainage pathways or lack of elimination in all forms, stagnant energy, and stuck emotions) I felt like I had finally found the keys to health!
I knew how painful and frustrating my own process was to find all of these answers piece by piece. But I wanted to help other women heal their bodies, while offering these solutions in a more direct route to lasting healing. I didn’t see anyone else combining their knowledge of nutrition and detoxing toxins with energy work and spiritual practices, so this is why I created it in my own business!
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Soul Fam Wellness is a company that provides women with the hope and clarity needed to overcome their greatest health and life challenges.
I built this company because of my own dramatic health journey. Shortly after becoming a software developer at USAA, I began to experience a cascade of health issues including breathing issues, digestive issues, headaches, chronic fatigue, and panic attacks. Functional doctors and holistic supplements gave little relief and thus I dove deep into various healing modalities, emotional release techniques, and root cause health practices. I found my purpose in this experience and now empower other female entrepreneurs, healers, energy workers, and corporate baddies to do the same.
My clients want to get to the root of their issues and not just heal but evolve and experience their full potentiality. They might experience symptoms like menstrual pain, constipation, low energy, or digestive issues, but in these issues they learn to develop a deeper connection with their body, become more confident, and love themselves. Their greater capacity for compassion allows them to receive from others freely and give their greatest gifts generously, creating a prosperous and fulfilling life.
I focus on more than just the symptoms that my clients are experiencing. We may use them as a starting point, but we quickly dive deeper into the energetic root of what’s behind the symptom and why it has manifested in their body. Symptoms are messages from your body. They’re meant to capture your attention for a very specific reason. Your body and soul are hard at work to guide you towards your soul’s highest path through these human experiences. The more you lean into the sensations you feel in your body instead of pushing them away, the more you will truly know yourself.
The majority of my work at this time is spent in long-term 1:1 coaching containers with clients who are truly committed to doing their own work. I’m there to guide their process and illuminate their blind spots that have been running their subconscious mind and keeping their life on autopilot. These 1:1 offerings are a combination of intuitive readings, energy work, guided meditation healings, coaching, breathwork, and physical detox support.
And for my one-time clients who are looking to ignite the initial energy of healing their health challenges, my signature offering (Soul Embodiment Reading) is a great first step! Everything I offer includes some kind of intuitive healing and energy work and this is no different. You’ll also receive messages from your body and soul so you can understand the energy behind your symptoms and feel confident in your next steps to support your body’s wellbeing.
I also love hosting group Breathwork Detox events, both virtually and in-person. This is a sacred space where you unleash the healer within you, all by using the power of your breath! At these events, I guide the group into a profound healing session where they experience deep emotional healing, crystal clarity on their next steps, the release and clearing of energy that’s been weighing them down for years, and connection to their higher self. It will give you the benefits of healing in community and be guided into a breathwork experience unlike any other! I use the power of music, frequency, energy work, NLP, and powerful motivational messages to motivate and recalibrate your mind for transformation and healing.
Do you have multiple revenue streams – if so, can you talk to us about those streams and how your developed them?
I partner with brands that I already love and use their products myself as an affiliate to help them promote their products and it provides me with an additional stream of income. I’m selective with who I partner with because I only want to put my name and brand behind something I truly believe in. At the beginning of my business I found myself recommending a lot of other products to my clients. My clients would love my recommendations, but I felt like I was sending business to all these other companies without receiving anything in return. That’s the main reason I started partnering with brands as an affiliate so I could continue to promote brands I love while also feeling financially supported in promoting something outside of my own company.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
Since I used to work in corporate, I’ve had to do a lot of work on my “money story” since becoming a full-time business owner. I was incredibly successful in the corporate world, and I experienced my financial and leadership success very fast.
While I was growing up, many people around me continued to feed the story that “you can only make money working for a large corporation”. So that’s where my safety and belief around working for someone else in a large corporate company was created. I continued to feed that story for 7 years as I rose to a leadership position well above my pay grade and fueling someone else’s dream.
When I finally decided to turn my small side business into my full-time career, completely switching industries and leaving corporate, at first I didn’t realize this money story was so ingrained in my brain. I was already making what many felt was an illogical jump from IT software developer to spiritual entrepreneur and professional intuitive. And once I landed in my new self created position, I quickly realized I brought my unsupportive money story with me.
I had to teach myself that I can create an income and feel supported wherever I put my full energy and belief in myself. When I worked in corporate, I whole-heartedly believed that I would make a lot of money and it would happen easily for me. And that came true because I believed it so deeply. As soon as I didn’t enjoy my corporate job anymore, that money story I had was still there and my belief about how I received money still existed, but my belief in the growth and opportunities came to a stand still. It was evident that my reality followed my beliefs. So I had to unlearn and relearn a new way of believing in myself and believing I can be financially successful from my own business. This isn’t something that has been fed by others around me, so I’m having to create this energy with my own beliefs. Connecting with like minded entrepreneurs and mentors that have this same belief as well has been helpful in creating new neural pathways in my brain to deepen my new beliefs to feel financially supported in a way that less people believe in.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.soulfamwellness.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulfamwellness/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulfamwellness
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfamwellness
- Other: Upcoming Breathwork Events (in-person & virtual): https://community.soulfamwellness.com/breathwork-detox-events
Image Credits
First 6 photos and feature photo: Bry Penney