Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Shawna Mox. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Shawna, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?

I truly believe that being on stage with a microphone and captivating a crowd is a calling with which my soul entered this world. However if I hadn’t been given a plethora of opportunities as a child, I don’t know how that calling would have been cultivated. Thankfully, my father created countless opportunities for me to take the stage – and often in very unconventional ways. He became obsessed with juggling, and shared this love with my brother and me; for years we would attend weekly juggling club meet ups. The juggling lead to performing said talents and in addition to the normal talent shows and what not, there was a point in time where I was assisting my dad and his juggler friend in teaching school-wide juggle days where we would teach entire schools how to juggle.

One of the smaller ways my public speaking and leadership was developed is that he would always have me make the call to order pizza. I remember the nervous feeling in my stomach and the practice over and over of just dialing the number anyway. Just going for it. Little did I know – and perhaps little did my dad know either – this was training a muscle of going for things outside of my comfort zone. That muscle has served me time and time again.

About a year ago I asked my dad if this was intentional – like did he see this propensity toward leading and speaking and then feed that inclination or was it just a happy accident that he became obsessed with something that had a performance element? He shared with me that as a young man he had done a Toastmasters series and it struck him what an important skill being able to communicate and command a room is to a person’s life. So in short, he intentionally wove these types of opportunities into my childhood to develop those skills. I am so grateful he did.

Shawna, 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?

My brand is me – Shawna Mox. I call myself a multidimensional medicine woman and my prime healing modalities include music, movement, and connection. In music, I create and perform ‘bangers for the babes’ – danceable electric pop music with uplifting and powerful messages. I am currently working on my debut album and have several tracks released – “Living Alive”, “Queened Up”, and “Booty Church” can be found on all streaming platforms.

I also deeply enjoy facilitating transformative experiences from pop up workshops to multi day retreats that usually include self inquiry, spiritual nourishment, and booty shaking (which turn out to be all related, lol). I support others in group and 1-1 containers on their journey of coming home to themselves through coaching, vocal exploration, and embodiment practices. I am magnetized to working with both men and women in attuning to be in right relationship with the divine feminine force that runs through all.

I came into this work following an interest in teaching what struck me as a fun way to work out and in 2014 I was trained in Hot Buddhi Yoga, a blend of yoga, dance, fitness, and kundalini activation. That journey lead me to fall IN LOVE with dance as medicine and specifically twerking. This brought me deep into the connection between shaking and trauma release. Even though I was simply seeking a fun way to sweat, what was given to me was an embodied experience of transformation through healing my relationship to my body and in turn opened up a great interest and belief in transformational work.

I’ve experienced two ‘dark nights of the soul’ – the most recent one being in 2021 following the birth of my son. I lived through a kundalini activated postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression. I know intimately what it is like to be in the dark and how to alchemize the brutal things we sometimes have to be with. I share this because my devotion is to continue to care for and hold my light to help others on their healing and spiritual evolution. This experience is something I am passionate about raising awareness through sharing my story via keynote speaking and podcast interviews.

Speaking of podcasts – you can find me on mine, Mystic Musings, riffing on the latest lessons this dojo called life is bringing forth for me and having incredibly juicy conversations with those I am drawn to invite in for a chat.

How did you build your audience on social media?

Not that I have the hugest following – but learning how to authentically show up on social media has been an intentional practice of the last 5 or so years. My advice is find one platform that you are drawn to learning and stick with it – if you are trying to to all the things in all the places, you will not be able to be consistent on any (unless you have a support team, then that’s a different place in the journey). Secondly, know that people are HUNGRY for real and authentic – one of the practices that helps me when I go to storytell on my social media is I choose someone dear to me in my life and write/speak directly to just that one person. My last piece is acknowledge that it is a whole ass skill set and to have compassion with yourself as you are learning.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I suppose the biggest driver for me at the moment is to inspire others to make moves toward the thing that lights them up. Even if it is for no other reason than that we are all worthy of making choices that light us up. When I was in the depths of my postpartum depression, I thought the life I live today was completely impossible for me to create. Yet here I am – pushing 40 and launching my conscious electropop music career 😂. I want people to know that Spirit/God/the Universe would not tease them with the calling and visions placed on their heart and to give themselves permission to move toward it with wonder.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://shawnamox.com
• Instagram: @shawna_mox
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/shawnamox
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwI1G96EuG1Z8eWHy8U7MYA

Image Credits

1. Sarah Kathleen Leader
2. Sarah Kathleen Leader
3. Lisa Fonville
4. Lisa Fonville
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6. Amanda Lynn