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

Ted, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

Toward the beginning of my healing journey, I was in a completely unrelated field with a corporate job. I attended a weekend retreat for gay men and got to share some of my story about having recently ended a 15-year relationship with an alcoholic narcissist and my very early lessons about self-love.

After sharing my story, I had several guys come up to me to thank me and tell me what my story meant to them. I had guys telling me I was an inspiration, which meant the world to me and was not something I’d ever been told before.

And in one particular conversation, a man told me, “You know, I can’t totally relate to your story — I’ve never been in an abusive relationship. But what I did take away from your share is that it’s never too late for me to choose my own happiness.”

That was the moment I realized, “Oh wow — I could really help people with this.” I could take my experience and what I’d learned and help people on their journeys, too. The seed was planted, and within a few months, I had the beginnings of writing my bestselling book and launching my business.

Ted, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

As I said before, I used to work in the corporate world as a consultant in an industry that was very different from what I do now. And I discovered my passion and purpose for helping people by navigating my own healing journey and connecting with others along the way.

Now that my business is well established, I provide coaching and hypnotherapy services to help my clients transform from the inside out by cultivating a deeply loving relationship with themselves. Our work together helps them heal their trauma, understand and feel through their emotions, see and release their limiting beliefs and self-deprecating thoughts, and expand into feeling more love, peace, and joy.

As a result, my clients experience beautiful changes in their lives — particularly in their relationships with other people. My expertise especially helps them in dating and romance, both for clients who are single and wanting to attract a loving partner as well as clients who are already in long-term relationships. I’ve also helped people improve their relationships with family and friends and in the professional world.

Most of all, though, my clients get to really deepen their love, joy, confidence, and trust in themselves. They come to enjoy their own company more and have a really loving relationship with themselves. And this has ripple effects into every other aspect of their lives — because our relationship with ourselves will always mirror our relationships with other people, with money, with time, with food, and with everything else.

Although I serve people of all gender expressions and sexualities, I feel a special calling to helping men heal. I believe that our world will operate and feel very differently when more men are willing to face themselves. I’ve been blessed to help many men get out of their heads and into their hearts — learning and being willing to feel their feelings, face and heal their past trauma, and shift into a healthier balance of divine masculine and feminine energy.

I serve clients 1:1 and in groups, both virtually and in person. I’ve led several Men’s Healing Intensives at my home in St. Louis where some amazing men have come together to heal. The depth and vulnerability that these men have been willing to show has helped them transform in some amazing ways in the two days we spend together.

And for the clients who I get to serve over extended periods of time, I’ve gotten to see them gradually become less stressed and more at peace, more joyful, and more solid within themselves.

I’m very grateful and honored to do what I do. I LOVE getting to serve and help people experience more of their True Selves.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

Showing up more and more as myself has been one of my greatest lessons, and an ever-evolving process.

Saying “just be yourself” is cliché and is easier said than done when we have so many thoughts in our heads, both conscious ones and subconscious ones, that tell us not to. We teach ourselves to choose our words very carefully, to say what we think other people want to hear, and to alter our personality or emotions because we learned at a young age that bad stuff could happen if we don’t follow these self-imposed rules. We become convinced that it’s safer to dim our own light and to hide our true selves because, otherwise, we might get hurt.

Especially for me in a one-man business, potential clients are going to be attracted to ME and MY energy — so it’s important that I show up in ways that are true and joyful for me.

Owning and running my business has been one of my greatest joys and also one of my greatest opportunities to face my own “stuff.” I’ve gotten to heal and transform my old fears of rejection, my old need to people-please while sacrificing my own needs and desires, my old needs to “go-go-go” and “do-do-do,” and my old fears of scarcity. And while I may not have crossed the finish line on these things just yet, I have grown leaps and bounds as a result of doing my own work on myself while I’ve shown up as a loving example in running my business.

Because I’m committed to my own self-mastery, I now trust myself so much more than I once did. I lead so many experiences from my intuition, which is something I didn’t even know I had (or was even possible for me). And I have fun. It’s such a joy to witness people transform before my eyes into more of who they really are at their core.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

In my experience, it’s been so much less about “strategy” and more about my own energy — my own thoughts and feelings and the decisions and actions I choose as a result of that.

At times, I’ve gotten roped into the beliefs that I need to worry about things like running ads, posting content based on social media algorithms, having a website, or using an email generator. At times, I’ve thought I needed to message people with certain words or follow certain formulas in conversations. These are some of the “strategies” I’ve been told I “should” use to get the results I want.

But I’ve found a lot of that stuff largely doesn’t matter. What’s most important is how much I’m trusting myself, how peaceful and joyful I feel, what I heal and release, knowing myself on deeper and deeper levels, slowing down and being present, and having fun. When I’m in alignment, I attract amazing clients.

And that lesson has been such an affirmation for every other area of my life: When I’m in alignment, great stuff happens. But what matters most is not what’s happening on the outside; my first priority and focus is what’s happening on the inside.

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