How to Sell as an Empath: Aligning for Heart Centered Sales
In college, I was hired for a job promising twice the pay of my former restaurant job. Starry-eyed with dollar signs, I didn’t realize until I started training what exactly I’d been hired for: selling kitchen knives door-to-door.
I quit on the first day.
To me, sales evoked sleazy salesmen swindling you into something you can’t afford. Pushy peddlers preying on sensitive souls—easy targets for their manipulative tactics.
Certainly there is a shadow side to sales, but I’ve since learned that sales, like design, is often misunderstood. Just like design is more than making things pretty, sales is more than a greedy hawking of goods. And both are necessary to a successful business.
So how do you sell in a way that’s aligned, not icky?
Your Moon Cycle & Your Business: Using Your Body’s Natural Rhythm to Your Advantage
As women, we’re conditioned to operate within a society that often goes against our natural biology. Because men function solely on a 24 hour cycle, we’re taught to expect the same consistency on a day-to-day basis. When in reality, our bodies are wired differently. Menstruating women operate on both a Circadian rhythm (24 hour cycle) and an Infradian rhythm (28 day cycle).
We’re given little to no awareness about this secondary rhythm—our moon cycle—and how it affects us on an energetic level throughout the month. This can cause us to unknowingly fight against ourselves, generating resistance, frustration, and ultimately burnout.
Understanding and embracing the ebbs and flows of our unique system helps us to function in alignment with our biology, instead of against it.