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

Hi Luna, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – walk us through the story?

Close your eyes and picture this. A place with open fields for miles, icey roads for days, a cold wind embracing your rosey cheeks; a winter wonderland for 8 months out of the year. A safe haven where everyone leaves there house unlocked. This was South Dakota, my home. A small town with a big city heart. I lived there for 24 years. I was a mortgage underwriter and worked for the bank for 8 of those years. The monotonous routine of waking up to go crunch numbers and restructuring of loans became unbearable. Seeing the same people became suffocating. Now, don’t get me wrong I love my family and friends; South Dakota is what made me, me. Confident, loving, understanding, and most of all Free. But I needed more. I needed change. So that’s exactly what I sought after.

Open your eyes to an 85 degree Christmas; a soft warm salty breeze from the ocean blanketing onto your sun kiss hide like a beach bum on a night in July. This was Houston. Colorful, traffic plagued, millions of people with a million things to do; H-town. A city where everyone is motivated for MORE.
I will never forget my drive to Houston from South Dakota. I drove alone for 17hrs in a 26ft moving truck that I had filled up earlier that day with my 3 bedroom house that I bought a few years prior. My whole life was all in this single truck with my car on tow in the back. As I came into Dallas in the wee hours of the morning they were doing construction on the interstate at 2 in the morning and the lights were so bright I was nearly blinded. It was difficult to navigate through. My heart was in my stomach. I realized I was alone. A few hours later I was right out of Houston and I needed gas, I pulled over and filled up not realizing I was not able to move forward and was scared shitless on how I was going to reverse this huge ass truck by myself to get out. I was in a neighborhood that appeared to make you want to lock your doors, it was still dark with the sun just barely over the horizon and here I was a 24yr old, naive, little girl, alone in a city I did not know. It hit me. “Wtf am I doing… is this the right decision. Did I make the right choice to take this leap by myself”…
I snapped out of it and jumped back up in that truck and I reversed that b*tch in one shot & successfully got out! Soon after that I was in Houston I missed my exit and, oh my, was it a shit show. So many cars, so many exits; I was laughing in my hysteria. I finally got to my 2bedroom apartment in the Galleria area of Houston TX.
To this day that memory of that drive gives me anxiety. BUT!! I did it.
Each day was a different day, each day was an experience. I fell in love with Houston. It taught me resilience, hustle, determination and it showed me my strength. Houston gave me a new skin.

Now I want you to close your eyes again and picture all of that in one. Open fields, but the noise of a city. Warm weather but a cool breeze, a mix of everything from home and Texas. Here you are in KC. A place where I found myself again, a place where I would call my new home. A place I got married and raised children at. A place where I continued to follow my modeling dream & open myself up to creativity and expression all while finding meaning of everything I have to offer.
My life was hectic for awhile. Sleepless nights of raising kids, studying, working, trying to not lose myself due to sleep deprivation and over stimulation. Just pure Chaos. It was a a true era of trials and tribulations. But It showed me my endurance. Once again I shed and gained a new skin.
Now open your eyes , open them just a little more and your downtown on the 6th floor looking out the window to all the lights that fill up the sky and your in your own office space. A business you & your husband started from scratch. A place that you know will change your life. The dream is too intense for it to be anything less than magical.
Welcome to Sunday Wellness and Support a place where you can let go, relax and feel the goddess/god that you are. A place to truly rejuvenate your soul.
-This is what I have been working for.
-All of the risks I took lead to this moment in time.

My philosophy on risks is that
-Life is full of risks, big , small , serious, or minor either way it’s what fills your cup, at least for me anyway… There will never be that “right”time..You just need to do it. Take the Jump. I promise you will be okay.

Luna, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a women, wife, mother, business owner and Model.
I have a very unique, bright, fruitful but yet dark creative mind that allows me to separate myself from other people and that is what stands out the most.

There isn’t anything that I love more, other then my family, than to bring my visions to life. That can be done by expressing myself through creative impressions, painting my innermost thoughts, or catering to the needs of my guests/customers.

Modeling was my first passion. I have always gravitated to being able to express myself in many different forms from emotions to feelings to just art.
I enjoy giving life to my imagination. And when I imagined being a boss, I opened my own business Sunday Wellness and Support. It’s a massage spa that helps people facilitate healing and harmony; to feel empowered and stress free. My husband and I started this business with the intention to be a positive force in our community. And, so far, so good.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I had lost my new job after leaving my career at the bank. I took it as a sign of needing to change my path completely. I put my resources together and began looking at alternative options for opportunities. That’s when I realized I did not need to work for others and decided to build my own business.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I haven’t unlearned a lesson, I don’t think you can unlearn something however, we all make mistakes and it will repeat until you learn from it.

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