We were lucky to catch up with Tameca Murray recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Tameca, thanks for 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.
Many years prior to formalizing my business, I was already exercising the skills, talents, and passions amidst interactions with others. It wasn’t until I found myself becoming more and more discontented with my professional work that I realized that the call for me to re-direct my focus and journey was getting louder. And so, I spent time in meditation to get a clearer vision of what was soon to be birthed.
While in meditation, I tapped into my most inner thoughts and envisioned “me” as the business. I saw the gifts of my wisdom and compassionate leadership integrating to form an authentic and trustworthy foundation – and name – for my business. Chreslove was born.
As I grew, the gauge for my success was the degree in which I could help. How many solutions could I bring to challenges (business and personal) that seemed impossible to solve? My edge was the passion that drove me, not the money I could obtain. My niche was the client that struggled with trust and needed a business that could be patient and good-natured.
This approach has proven to be the cornerstone for both Chreslove and Chreslove Consulting. Each client is given personal, individualized attention and appreciated for the uniqueness of their need. They feel it – we feel it. They know it, and we do too.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I am Tameca Murray. After 25 years working in Healthcare IT, I hung my executive hat and dusted off my yoga mat to connect more with my personal desires and how they could best be expressed. In 2020, I formally launched Chreslove and merged all my gifts and talents into one. I offered adjunct HR services to small businesses, including employee relations support, which allowed me to exercise my coaching abilities. Over time, I realized I needed to refine my platform a bit further and tune in to what was truly going to get me out of bed joyfully each morning.
In 2023, I relaunched Chreslove as two different businesses. Chreslove as an individualized coaching and group healing servicer, and Chreslove Consulting operating as a partner to small businesses as they launch and attempt to thrive.
Chreslove has remained boutique in nature, attracting clients that have not found success with traditional counseling and therapeutic modalities and desire to have one-to-one support in healing some of their deepest wounds. Chreslove’s distinctive ability to simultaneously see, feel, and listen offers a creative win over all manner of dis-ease. In addition to the personalized coaching, Chreslove also conducts group healing services – including year-round Divinity Board sessions. The Divinity Board(TM) is a transformative, life planning tool that goes beyond the intentions of a vision board. This service, and all of our healing services are tailored to the ascending needs of the greater collective and changing world.
Chreslove Consulting utilizes the same energy and ambition as Chreslove, and infuses passion and professionalism into every request. Considering the expanded experience of the Chreslove Consulting team, our reach across multiple industries and business functions is far and wide. From business initiation/launch to project management of small-to-large endeavors, we are well-versed and equipped to handle it all. We’ve had clients from the insurance, beauty/salon, and entertainment industries, as well as the general business sector, allowing us to prove our light shines bright without hesitation or interruption.
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
I’ve never really been akin to following the crowd – in business or life. I’ve always known my story to be unparallel to most. With that, and after valiant attempts to garner business from social media platforms, gain funding from banks and investors, and extend countless hours to marketing my business to family and friends, I realized that nothing about my life, my business and my achievement would be sourced from others. I learned that the good, the bad, and the ugly would be a direct reflection and consequence of “all things me”.
I quickly recognized that I was more than just a participant in the funding and operation of my business. I was and am the co-creator of what is and what will be. This change in understanding was my pivot – my cross to bear.
The increased drive, resilience, patience (with self and others), adaptability, and courage to keep going were the initial blessings to realize. Eventually, the value-add of just being a stable business with a divine cause was enough to keep the doors open even if no one entered. Elevating me, elevated my business.
It has not been easy to walk away from my corporate salary and sacrifice the material pleasures I’d become accustomed to, but there is no greater compensation than knowing you live and breathe in purpose. I have no regrets for my decision to say yes to me and my dream of being a business owner. The pivot I made to “do me” has become the nucleus and flow to my entire existence. And it is the connecting fiber between my business and the communities I serve.
We’d really appreciate if you could talk to us about how you figured out the manufacturing process.
Chreslove’s “product” is its “service”. An innately born service that creates an eternally impactful experience. The inputs from my inner wealth are a direct reflection in Chreslove’s output.
I am Chreslove. Everything about my business is me, thus, Chreslove’s routine operations benefit from my inborn knowledge and compassion. Over the years, in light of the ‘know better, do better’ mantra, I have polished and put cherries on top.
Where there were gaps, I’ve obtained higher learning and sought intentional experiences to fulfill. I’ve additionally met some amazing people and become acquainted with many legends – some who share my perspective and have similar backgrounds, and others with extremely different viewpoints that sparked the genesis of adjustments and realignments.
With this, Chreslove is able to deliver a service that is equally as dedicated and whole as the creative beginnings of Chreslove.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.chreslove.com – AND – www.chresloveconsulting.com
- Other: To connect with all things me, including my publications and other associations, visit https://linktr.ee/bytnicole,
Image Credits
Photographers from the portfolio shared are: Pheauxtography, by Blair Devereaux Lajoy Photography, by LaJoy Lewis DLB Photography, by Damon Barnes
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