We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Maria Isabel Lopez a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Maria Isabel , appreciate you joining 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 started making witchy goodies for friends as presents. Turns out. I really enjoyed doing them and wanted to sell them at events and online. I wanted to make products that were easy to use for new witches and seasoned witches. I felt like magic was different because we were living in different times, I wanted to make my magic assessable. I wanted to add simplicity, but a lot of love to the things I do, where you can take the magic anywhere. I started with sprays and I felt like those were really easy to begin with because you can take sprays anywhere with you. Now I have an array of items even soaps that I put intentions on that you can use while you’re taking a shower so even when you’re getting cleansed, you’re literally literally getting spiritually cleansed or attracting something while you take a shower or bath!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

A lot of my witchy work started at a very young age, of course at the time I didn’t know that it would turn out to be a business. But my path started reading witchy books, connecting to other witchy friends and eventually through the years, taking classes and learning how to do energy work, and all sorts of other fun magical things. I was also very blessed to have knowledge and plants and healing properties. Thanks to my family. One of the biggest things that I focused on was protection magic, and that is probably my most popular service in different formats. From cleansing the house and making cleansing items. I even occasionally do classes to teach others how to do magic on their own because I love to see people knowing that they have the ability to also do magic and that they have the magic within, that’s one of the most powerful things I believe is for and inside everyone.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

The thing about starting my business is that you have to learn to make mistakes, and when you learn from them, you learn to build and create better things because of the lessons you learn. I feel that wisdom is definitely something that’s important and it comes in different forms, even forms that we know might not be so happy with at first, but in the end mistakes have been my biggest teachers, Because of mistakes, I’ve learned to make my products better.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Having a chronic illness as a small business owner has taught me to go with the flow of the seasons and it’s taught me to go with the flow of my body. Because I work mainly with plants and flowers for my products, that I grow from my own garden, they too have been a great teacher for my mind-body and spirit. Gardening has been a wonderful healing mechanism for me because it teaches me to go slow. It teaches me that things take time and sometimes my products take weeks for them to brew. Because of this, I’ve made a wonderful connection with my own body to take breaks to slow down and when I do this, not only do I feel more balanced. I get to put more love into what I do when I have the energy to do so. It was never about giving up. It was learning to do things differently in my own way.. This business has been a lifesaver for me because it’s taught me so much more than just being a business, but about being a person behind the business and when I do things in harmony, you can feel that energy in my products, and my customers get that energy back, seeing them happy makes me happy!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://hijadelaagua.onuniverse.com/
• Instagram: @HijaDeLaAgua
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Image credit by Andrew Monzon