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Networking for Aliens (Holistic Healers); How to Not Fit in and Thrive Anyway
If you’re a holistic healer (alien) and you’ve been following your calling for years, resistant to the marketing you know you need to do to grow your business, have faith. There is another way to do this, you don’t need to do it like everyone else, and it might just be about being your alien self when you’re out there talking to the zombies.
I say “zombies” with some compassion because I was one for a long time; working to live, passing out my business cards at functions hoping and praying someone would need me, that I was good enough to attract enough clients to make a living.
It’s about these connections, after all.
And if you’re a healer who’s also a business owner, you’re going to have to get used to learning a language that doesn’t sound or feel familiar to you. You’ll need to be comfortable outside your comfort zone.
And…if you’re being true to your badass alien self, you can actually do this whole networking thing your way, instead of dreading and then resenting the time you spend trying to make connections with people you feel just don’t get you.
I went to a function this week. And here’s what happened in my alien mind:
