We were lucky to catch up with Regyna Curtis recently and have shared our conversation below.

Regyna, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s something crazy on unexpected that’s happened to you or your business

The craziest thing that’s happened in my business was a dream.
An actual dream about a mink and an egg.
But before I tell you that story, let me rewind a bit and set the stage.
In 2016, I knew that I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I had no idea yet how to make that happen. What I didn’t realize at the time was that it wasn’t my job to figure out how it would happen, but rather just to make the commitment and then stay devoted to it.
Even though I made that commitment in 2016, I didn’t step into full-time entrepreneurship until four years later and I never could have orchestrated the sequence of events that led to it on my own. Ultimately, my first role as an entrepreneur was as a visionary. To hold my vision while allowing the process to unfold through a combination of supported surrender (honed through my spiritual practices) and strategic engagement (developed through my professional experiences).
For the first two years, my job was just that. Holding the vision of the life I knew I wanted to lead while building the belief that I have everything necessary within me to lead it. In other words, my work as an entrepreneur began in the metaphysical realm long before it materialized in the physical one.
By 2019, I was working a demanding corporate job in international education, traveling constantly with little control over my time, pace, or projects. The work itself was meaningful, but the lifestyle wasn’t sustainable, and I was burning out.
So, I made a promise to myself: I would create exquisite boundaries that would move me closer that vision of my desired lifestyle. I committed to honoring my energy, showing up fully during work hours, and allowing myself to rest and play outside of them. I practiced gratitude for what that job had given me. And then, utilizing my intuitive and creative gifts, as well as the skills I’d developed professionally, I began laying the foundation for my own business. I filed the LLC paperwork for my business, Atmaitri.
And then something magical happened.
Once I implemented those exquisite boundaries, the conditions that had necessitated them began to dissolve. I was offered the opportunity to design a new role for myself within the company I was working for which felt like a soft transition into my future as an entrepreneur. How exciting!
However, just as soon as I began that role, the pandemic hit.

Atmaitri’s LLC was finalized.
My new corporate role dissolved.
I was laid off… Let go from one world and pushed face first into the next. Luckily, this was the very journey I’d been preparing for.

What followed was a season of creation. I brought together everything I knew: my background in business and education, my lifelong relationship with energy and intuition, and my identity as an artist. In the convergence of all the things that made me uniquely me, I developed the Charting Your Course system—a way to help visionary founders align with their internal rhythms and cycles so they can make their businesses feel like home and work like magic. I was living the system in real time, documenting my insights and shaping tools that could serve others through developing the things I needed for myself.
It was all coming together, but I knew there was still one piece missing: community.
I had always envisioned a new kind of online space, one that allowed members to interact in the ways I missed from my corporate career. Things like walking down a hallway and popping into a colleague’s office, or bumping into someone at the coffee pot for a quick and unexpected dose of inspiration or useful insight. A place that nurtured real-time connection, co-creation, and fostered momentum just like working with a team, but in a virtual world. I had the vision, but I needed someone who could help me anchor it through an aligned platform and shared mission.
That’s when the dream came.
One night, I set a sleep intention, asking my dreams to guide me to the person who could help me do this. That night, I dreamed of a woman who drew two circles joined by a bracket. In the left circle was the face of a mink. In the right: an egg. She labeled them: “MINK” and “YOU.” Then she looked at me and said, “You are the egg. Find the mink.”
The next day, I searched endlessly for meaning through animal symbolism, metaphors, anything that might help me interpret it, but nothing clicked. That night, I asked again: “Please show me how to find the mink.”
The very next day, a friend messaged me out of the blue. “Hey, have you ever connected with Monica?” She’d never mentioned this name to me before. The moment I heard it, lightning shot through my body so I asked for more details.
She paused and said, “I don’t even know why I said that. But I met her recently in a networking call. Her company is called… MINKLife Motivation.”
That was it. I just knew.
That introduction led to the creation of the Mingle! Learning Collaborative, a visionary community space that brings together heart-centered entrepreneurs to explore sustainable business practices through real-time connection, creative exploration, and aligned action. Monica and I joined forces, and together we built the mechanism for the vision I had been laying the foundation for since the very beginning.
Sometimes the craziest things in business aren’t the disasters or moments gone viral. Sometimes, it’s following that spark of inspiration, trusting in the divine timing that is your unique process… and believing that a mink in your dreams might just lead you into your most aligned, joyful, and prosperous reality.

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.

I’m Regyna Curtis, a visionary business strategist and the creator of the Charting Your Course system. I help visionary founders align their lives and businesses with their natural energetic rhythms so they can create sustainable success and soul-aligned impact.
I am the founder of Atmaitri. This name was formed from two Sanskrit words combined to mean “a journey of kindness toward your soul.” Atmaitri is more than a business; it’s a living philosophy and a new model for how to build, grow, and sustain your sacred work in the world. Through Atmaitri, I guide entrepreneurs to recognize their unique ways of knowing and being, integrate that awareness into action, and flourish in both life and business throughout any season or terrain.
I’m also the co-founder of the Mingle! Learning Collaborative, where the Charting Your Course system informs the various leadership and learning pathways, business development support systems, and collaborative engagement practices allowing each community member to create success in their own way and at their own pace to live healthy, wealthy, and fulfilled.
My body of work as a visionary is the convergence of my professional journey, lived experiences, and innate gifts: my background in educational travel and business development, my deep connection to intuitive insight and energy work, and my lifelong identity as an artist and creator. It lives at the intersection of entrepreneurship, creativity, introspective systems, online community development, and spiritual practices. I began doing this work in response to a deep desire to cultivate a life for myself where I could let joy lead the way. To choose what I was working on, who I was working on it with, and for how long. Essentially, I craved the freedom of choice.
After over a decade in the corporate world, I reached a point where I was no longer willing to shrink my creativity or silence my intuition to prioritize someone else’s agenda or to perpetuate the limitations of systems designed for predictability over potential. I was tired of being sought out for my innovative genius while simultaneously told to tone down my creativity and harness my humanness.
At some point, I could no longer keep these two aspects of myself siloed. So I created a new system and way of working. I did it, at first, for myself, and then once I realized how powerful it was, I adapted it for others.
That system became Charting Your Course, a proprietary framework designed to help visionaries, founders, and other creative entrepreneurs align their life and business with their unique personal timing, energetic cycles, and internal rhythms. It helps them understand where they are in the big picture so they can flow in life, prosper in business, and enjoy the journey every step of the way.
Charting Your Course is at the core of everything I do both personally and professionally. From business strategy to my devotional intuitive art practice, it supports the way I live and how I lead. It blends left-brain logic with the intuitive and creative wisdom of the right-brain, helping clients translate self-awareness into actionable strategy. It’s not your typical introspection system full of archetypes to wear as your identity and it’s not merely a calendar. It’s an ever-evolving understanding of who you are, how you thrive, and the confidence to know when and how to act on what matters most.
My clients are visionary entrepreneurs who have outgrown traditional business frameworks. They feel out of sync with mainstream approaches to productivity. They crave spaciousness, soul-alignment, and sustainable success. They love introspective systems like astrology or human design, but don’t know how to distill the insights they receive through those systems to help them optimize their day-to-day applications of running a business. They find their analytical mind arguing with their intuitive knowing, and haven’t yet built the trust to incorporate the powerful tools that they value in their personal development into their business strategy. I help them return to their natural rhythm, build businesses that honor their energy, and create systems that support the lifestyle they’re here to lead. Together, we move beyond passive self-awareness into embodied, impactful action.
What makes my work different is the way it blends structure and soul, insight and implementation. Many programs focus on either strategy or intuition, but mine is built on the belief (and supported by research) that transformation happens faster and lasts longer when you use both. My clients create tangible, customized plans to implement their soul-led strategies within supportive community spaces that honor the fullness of who they are.
I’m most proud of the way this work transforms the landscape of how we work. It shifts the perspective of how entrepreneurs understand and work with time, energy, and purpose. It helps them see that rest is productive. That alignment is a strategy. And that their personal rhythms are their greatest asset. I’m also deeply proud of how the Charting Your Course system has shaped collaborative spaces like the Mingle! Learning Collaborative, which I co-founded to bring these values to life inside a vibrant online community. It’s proof that sustainable, soul-aligned business isn’t a vision of the future; it’s already happening!
I want people to know that if you’re a visionary founder, a creative entrepreneur, or someone who’s tired of forcing things and are ready to flow, you’re not alone. Your way of working is valid. Your natural rhythm is wise. And your business can be both purposeful and prosperous when it’s built in harmony with who you truly are.

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

One of the biggest lessons I had to unlearn is that what makes me different isn’t weird; it’s my superpower.
As a child, I had a deeper awareness of things than I was “supposed” to. I often knew things like when someone had died before I was told. It freaked people out when I’d share what I knew or things I experienced, often speaking the very thing someone had come to share with me before they ever had a chance to speak. I was told I had a vivid imagination, but that was rarely said with admiration, so I learned to keep quiet about what I saw, what I felt, and what I understood on levels that didn’t seem “normal” to the people around me.
I became a master at reading the room and mimicking others’ responses so I wouldn’t stand out. I turned my creativity inward and explored my intuition privately, especially through dreams, where I could freely wander and learn. In school, I slowed myself down so others wouldn’t feel uncomfortable. Later, in my professional life, I took on far more responsibility than I was paid for, always trying to prove my value, but never quite unleashing my full potential for fear of disrupting the status quo.
That pattern led to a deep sense of frustration. I knew I was capable of more, but I kept shrinking myself to fit the environments I was in. Eventually, I reached a breaking point. I got tired of trying to please everyone else so I made a commitment to honor my own needs, desires, and abilities, and that was exactly when everything began to shift.
When I stopped dimming myself and my unique ways of being to avoid making others uncomfortable, the world around me started responding differently. The same people who once cautioned me not to dye my hair purple and other ridiculously unimportant things like that suddenly began to respect my autonomy. They started seeking out my insight and collaboration more. Once I chose to show up fully as myself, I was no longer “too much”, but rather exactly what was needed, in exactly the way it was needed, at just the right time.
Looking back now, I can see that my entire corporate career was training me to become the CEO of my own business. It was teaching me how to make confident decisions, trust my inner knowing, and be the most loyal believer in both myself and my vision.

Can you open up about a time when you had a really close call with the business?

Something I think it’s really important to understand as an entrepreneur is that there will be times when you’re the only person who believes in what you’re doing. But you are also the only person who cannot afford to waver in that belief. There will be times when you have to take on additional work just to keep the lights on. Times when people will flat out tell you it’s time to throw in the towel. You’ll face hardships, haters, and a hell of a lot of personal transformation.
One of the “near-death” moments for my business came about two years in.
I had officially launched at the start of the pandemic. While I’d been developing the concept and operating in side-gig status for two years prior, I had only just committed to myself that I would quietly build it in my leisure time while slowly winding down my corporate career, when I was launched into full-time entrepreneurship, almost overnight.
I hadn’t raised any capital. The business was making money, but I didn’t yet have a real strategy for long-term success or sustainability. I had just decided to do it for real when it suddenly became my whole reality.
I went from earning a comfortable corporate salary to navigating life in a volatile global landscape, with a small severance package and a newborn business that needed nurturing. In my corporate work, I had experience in product and program development, supported by structured teams and defined budgets. Even in scrappy new-initiative environments, we still had the cushion of infrastructure and could move money around from other places in the business to get things off the ground in a pinch. Now, on my own, even the tightest budgets from those days felt luxurious in comparison.
By year two, I had burned through my savings, was buried in debt, and my revenue was trending in the wrong direction. I had taken on contract work to stay afloat, but it wasn’t enough so I met with my financial planner to see if we could make adjustments to relieve the strain. Her advice?
“It’s time to quit and get a real job.”
I was furious. A fire lit inside of me. When she asked how I felt about that suggestion, let’s just say my response was not safe for a family-friendly audience. I was clear, direct, and firm, and she respected that. She replied, “Then you need to increase your income by 30% in the next 90 days. Otherwise, we need to make some big changes.”
What surprised me most in that moment was how helpful it was to have a clear goal.
In my corporate job, the goals were always set for me. They helped structure my time, sure, but they never felt meaningful. But this was different. This was mine. There was fulfillment in this kind of focus that I had never experienced in any of my prior roles.
That moment taught me two things I’ll never forget:
1. Everyone else can lose faith in me, but I can’t. Ever.
2. Having clear financial goals is not just helpful, it’s soothing. And when those goals are rooted in purpose, they don’t restrict me; they free me.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.atmaitri.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atmaitri/
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• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regyna-curtis/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@atmaitri
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