Stacia Hobson

I attribute my success to grit, perseverance, and tenacity. We all go through really hard times, and that's just life, that's just process, that's evolution. I had a lot of strong internal conviction - this is my mission, I'm sticking to it regardless of the ugly circumstances surrounding me. I also had a really good village and coaches along the way. I was having a real tough time once, and one of my business coaches said to me, shockingly, 'stop your whining' - it was a wake-up call that I didn't have to have this as my situation. She reminded me that I was smart, talented, and creative, and told me to go figure it out and stop whining about it. Sometimes you just need someone to look at what you're doing and be like, just stop it, this is who you are, go do it.

The best advice I've received is to be bold and to be true to yourself, to be authentic. I have to remind myself to stay bold in my mission on a regular basis. As a business intuitive, people fight against the idea of intuition and business being connected, so I have to remind myself to stay bold in my mission and be true to myself. My coaches have told me to be authentic, and I've learned that between the coaches and my own internal voice, I need to stay true to who I am. My biggest business moves were all from intuition, so I have to keep reminding myself of that.

Really, own your power. I was in the manufacturing world, which is a male-dominated industry, and I didn't fit in - I was a young woman back in the late 80s. Things have changed dramatically since then, but they have and they haven't. I didn't know how to fit in. My father owned the company, and I converted it from distribution to manufacturer, so I had a lot of influence and had men reporting to me who were old enough to be my father. I really wasn't treated the way I should have been treated - if it had not been for me, they wouldn't have had those jobs. I really had to learn to step into my power as a woman in this business. The ironic thing is I tried all this different stuff, but what it came back down to was really embracing my femininity. I finally found my voice and my conviction and confidence and congruence when I owned my feminine voice and that God-given power that women have. When you finally stop trying to fit into the mold and wield it the way we're meant to, that's when everything changes.

The biggest thing I want to impress upon my clients is that intuition is guidance - it is true guidance - and to follow that. People ask me how they know if it's intuition or something else, and I tell them that intuition is non-emotional. When people ask how they know if they should believe me when I'm channeling a reading for them, I tell them it will resonate. If someone is reading for you and it's not resonating, it is not channeled. The channeled message is coming from the highest, and you will know because it will resonate with you. It will make sense, your soul will be receptive. The challenge is to get people out of their logical, digital left brains and to open up and embrace what we all have. You may need help - I need help, I have an intuitive myself. We all struggle reading for ourselves sometimes, so it's always acceptable to get outside help. When you know it's right, do it, act on it, embrace it in those business decisions. Like I said, my biggest wins in business were intuitively led.

Integrity is truly at the end service. It is so important in my career shift to really have service at the forefront - to service my clients and to make sure that I hold the space for them, that they feel seen, that they understand what's coming in intuitively as well as business-wise. I want to be very authentic and present things honorably, with compassion and integrity.