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If what you’re doing or how you’re doing it doesn’t immediately take off, don’t be so quick to judge it as not working or inadequate in some way. Especially if you’re introducing something new, your audience may take longer than expected to understand the frequency of what you’re trying to say.
As a part of our series about women who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitnee Nicole.
Best described as an intuitive powerhouse, Whitnee Nicole believes in following your soul in business and life. Whitnee began her career as a Clinical Therapist but burnt out. Then, her marriage burnt too. She went from a life that looked perfect on paper to leaning on deeper guidance, what she calls spirit guidance, to begin her journey as a business and spiritual mentor.
The journey hasn’t been easy, and Whitnee wants to break down what tapping into your soul’s energy truly means.
Whitnee feels that everyone deserves to live a life of alignment, joy, and balance. In a world that is focused on hustle and bustle, Whitnee’s specialty is integrating and balancing masculine and feminine energies in business and life to create success without sacrificing your peace.
When Whitnee is not working with clients, you can find her hooked into a nostalgic rom-com binge or enjoying sweater weather and amazing coffee. You can connect with Whitnee at @innervibetribe on Instagram.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?
I was raised in the church by a very strong mother who was no stranger to survival in her own story. Her goal was to disrupt patterns and provide my sisters and I with opportunities that she didn’t have growing up. She was successful with breaking several toxic cycles, but even at a young age, I was receiving deep insights and had deep inner knowledge about massive gaps and unhealed wounds. This continued to play out as she led our family as best she could. I experienced life-altering and traumatic experiences which allowed my soul path to begin to unfold. Unable to sit idle or stay silent. Human experience fascinated me– so I wanted to learn about foundational change. I knew that in many ways I was going against the grain, rebelling, and choosing to accept being labeled as different, weird, difficult, and possibly a trouble maker.
In college, I decided to study psychology, human science, and relational dynamics. Expansion happened, but it still didn’t explain enough for me. I wanted to connect and integrate the unexplainable and spiritual aspects of giving and receiving energy. This was a huge and fundamental part of how I healed and expanded in the world. To me, it was easier to process and create change through an energetic lense than through a psychological one. Later, I became a clinical therapist and expanded my work to private practice, working with families, couples, and individuals with a wide array of diagnosis.
It took me some years to build up the courage to leave the clinical world and to honor my soul path of becoming a spiritual coach and a guide.
Can you tell our readers what it is about the work you’re doing that’s disruptive?
I’m not a traditional mindset or business coach. My clients expand in both personal and professional areas of their life through doing shadow work: a type of deep reprogramming. In addition, I channel spirit to further look at the energy which needs to be reworked for my clients to unblock and receive the greatest good in their life. This approach blends both masculine and feminine energies because we are thinking and perceiving through the energy while also reworking and reprogramming through tangible practice steps and aligned action.
The approach has been disruptive because it goes beyond measurable application. There are tangible pieces in place, but a large part is not palpable. It’s energy unfolding and reprocessing. Often misunderstood, energy is infinite and can help people shift in powerful ways. Many people may interpret the term “spirit” as something eerie, but I would describe it as more mystical and magical. When I refer to “spirit”, I am tapping into an extension of God/Source. Something we all connect to at one time or another. I try not to overcomplicate it and instead explain my approach as someone who is tapped into the light and goodness of the world. This guides my work.
Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
When I first transitioned from therapy to spiritual coaching, I recall the emotion of feeling like I had to entertain or perform online. Everywhere I turned, other people were producing silly and cute content, so I believed that I needed to do that to be successful too.. Lo and behold: I learned another alignment lesson about marketing in my specific line of work. If I am not connected to my marketing, my intentions of attracting more people don’t work. Regardless of what other people are doing, I learned to only show up online when I am in the mood and authentic energy to do so. And to only be funny when it feels natural!
We all need a little help along the journey. Who have been some of your mentors? Can you share a story about how they made an impact?
Working with mentors has also been a spiritual unfolding process. In the beginning of my transition, my consistent narrative was that I didn;t know what I was doing because I was moving from an insurance to cash model. Conceptually, it’s funny to think about because most of my work is based on inner power with a sprinkling of strategy, but I allowed the strategy to consume my thinking! I gave my power to what I thought I needed in order to be successful, which made hiring mentors in the coaching industry tricky. I consider all of my experiences a part of my learning though and ultimately a blessing that has led me to greater understanding of myself and the world.
One of the most powerful mentors I had wasn’t a traditional coach, but a shaman. She helped me with the alignment of my unique energy and vision for how I wanted to show up and serve my clients. I believe in a lot of ways, it was through her mentorship modeling that I understood the power of expansion and creation in all areas of my life. She supported me with multiple layers of permission to empower my clients in the way they were seeking. My experience using mentors within and outside the coaching industry helped me to become clear on creating a powerful support team As it turns out, my core support team has consisted of a range of mentors consisting of deeply spiritual energetic mystics to spiritual business strategist. The common denominator is a deep connection to the work we are doing together.
In today’s parlance, being disruptive is usually a positive adjective. But is disrupting always good? When do we say the converse, that a system or structure has ‘withstood the test of time’? Can you articulate to our readers when disrupting an industry is positive, and when disrupting an industry is ‘not so positive’? Can you share some examples of what you mean?
In my personal experience, disruption is most positive when you have a true connection to why you are doing what you’re doing. For example, if you’re authentic to who you are and causing people to raise eyebrows, you are expressing yourself fully. For example, if you live in a small town that’s highly religious but not necessarily spiritual, but you feel most connected to spirituality, it could be a positive disruption to walk authentically in your spirituality and not hide your belief system. Take it a step farther. You could open up a spiritual shop for people to come and expand their understanding of God. It’s positive if it’s authentic to you. There’s no guarantee that it will be easy but if it’s aligned, that’s where you’ll find power.
An example of a negative disruption would be when someone steps forward to represent things for themselves without an authentic alignment to it. Maybe they’re doing it because they simply like the drama and the ability to make waves. They are feeling through a level of their own power, but it’s not soulful. Doing something just for the drama or to create waves doesn’t have substance to build on long-term and will fizzle out. Unless you know why you are doing something, you struggle to have the energy to keep the vision going.
Can you share 3 of the best words of advice you’ve gotten along your journey? Please give a story or example for each.
If what you’re doing or how you’re doing it doesn’t immediately take off, don’t be so quick to judge it as not working or inadequate in some way. Especially if you’re introducing something new, your audience may take longer than expected to understand the frequency of what you’re trying to say.For example, let’s say you’ve discovered a powerful new modality that produced amazing results and want to share that. You market it, but crickets. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work, but it may take time to unfold and come into form. The advice is to not give up and continue working with it.
We are sure you aren’t done. How are you going to shake things up next?
Coming up next, I’ll be going even deeper into spirituality with my private clients and expanding the ways in which we can connect not only online but in person. I’m tapping into a stronger vision to create an even more immersive and exciting experience.
In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges faced by ‘women disruptors’ that aren’t typically faced by their male counterparts?
Standing and holding in the energy that we can have it all. Our feminine energy is power, and we don’t have to sacrifice ourselves. We can show up in balance– using both our masculine and feminine energies, and do it in our own way and time. . Deeply spiritual women can be the picture of abundance and success and I believe we are seeing more and more of this. Abundance and success and deep spiritual attunement.
Do you have a book/podcast/talk that’s had a deep impact on your thinking? Can you share a story with us?
I found the book The Alchemist years ago and it truly shifted something deep within me. The journey of alchemy — turning precious metals into gold is a story of self discovery, faith and tangible results. The book found me actually. I had a dream one night and the word alchemy appeared. I didnt even know the definition at the time and had to go and google it to find more info. From there, I went browsing on YouTube to see what I could find. I came across an interview of Will Smith talkin about this book and its power and that was my confirmation to go and get my own copy. I want to Barnes and Noble and low and behold, there it was a special addition being marketing on its on display at the front of the store. So the synchronicities were swirling to say the least. I read the whole thing in a couple of days because it was just that juicy and literally every word on every page spoke to me. Its powerful how we can call in teachers for us for different things at different times in our lives. That book simply had Divine Timing.
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. 🙂
I would love to start a Self-Awareness and Divine Reprogramming Movement. The movement would inspire people to go within to heal and redirect energy that holds them back from living their full potential. The movement would promote how expansive it would be to step into new levels of mastery in an uncomplicated way.. It would be having a sacred practice around non-judgmentally observing your own inner narratives to reacquaint yourself with yourself. After observation, you can locate which aspects of your inner narratives want to evolve and change to serve a better function and positive purpose in your life. The last step would involve reconnecting with self on a deeper level and using things like meditation or anything that brings you home to yourself to create a new and improved narrative.
Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?
The quote is from Wayne Dyer:, “You’ll see it when you believe it “. It describes the laws of energy in that when I am truly aligned and in connection with what I believe and I’m manifesting, that’s when it’ll show up. When something that I am trying to manifest feels stuck or difficult, I go back and check my beliefs.
How can our readers follow you online?
Readers can follow me on Instagram at @innervibetribe
This was very inspiring. Thank you so much for joining us!
Female Disruptors: Whitnee Nicole On The Three Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry was originally published in Authority Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.