Today, I am really excited to be interviewing the amazing Emma Mildon. Emma is a millennial mystic, charged with creating a movement of conscious action in the world. She's the author of "The Soul Searcher's Handbook" and "Evolution of Goddess" and she is one of my favorite people to talk to. So, Emma thank you so much for being here today. Emma Mildon: I love our chats so much! I'm always so excited because something always bubbles to the surface, so I'm so excited to talk to you again. Ashley: And for those who may not be familiar with you and your work yet... Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your mission and how you got started with all the amazing things that you're doing? Emma: Yeah, of course. So I really started out, spirituality, totally selfishly. I was just wanting to expand and explore it for me. So I'm being totally honest - It was a me, me, me spiritual mission. I did the yoga, I did the meditation, I explored the crystals and then I started traveling. So I read lots of books, and met lots of teachers and gurus and authors. I found myself learning everything from tea-leaf reading to astrology and numerology, crystals, Reiki, and meeting Shaman. It was quite a journey. And throughout that, I threw a lot of books across my room. Now, I don't endorse book-throwing, but I have zero tolerance and a pretty short attention span. As a mystic millennial, I hate being told what to do, more importantly, I hate being told what to believe in. The books I read were great and they had great wisdom and I really respect the authors and artists that wrote them. However, there was always an undercurrent of bossy-ness and right and wrong. Kind of like regiment to ritual, which I really didn't resonate with. I felt like it kind of clipped my wings when I was trying to explore and journey through my own spiritual choices. As a result, I wrote books that I needed at the time. I started writing books about spirituality that became... kind of like smorgasbord spirituality. You could digest and eat and nibble on any type of mystic, spiritual mindfulness that you crave without having to sit down and have a whole big meal on it. It's about having spirituality on your terms. Soul Searcher's Handbook is a menu of spiritual approaches that you can take to help guide you to build your own belief system on your own terms. Ashley: You know, I don't know if I've ever told you this, but... in addition to the love and light school, I also own a metaphysical bookstore. One of my employees who was recently promoted to manager said that your book, The Soul Searcher's Handbook, is really what sparked her interest in everything metaphysical. Someone gave her that book and she said that she read it cover to cover. She couldn't put it down. She said it was just so comfortable and so approachable and that really sparked her natural curiosity to continue further on this amazing spiritual path that she's on. Now, she manages the bookstore and she's doing all these other amazing things in the world. She's a freelance photographer and she's all about creating beauty in the world. Your book helped inspire and spark all of that for her. And I think everyone I've ever talked to about it says more or less the same thing. It's so warm and welcoming. You feel like you're just sitting down with a cup of tea with someone that you could spend hours talking to. Your new book, Evolution of Goddess, is very much the same. It's here at just the right time for many of us. So can you tell us a little bit about what sparked your passion for this topic? For Evolution of Goddess, what got you going with this? Emma: Yeah, you know what, it's so funny. Hearing that story about The Soul Searcher's Handbook makes me emotional, and that's exactly what I experienced coming into Evolution of Goddess. In truth, I was pretty tired and I didn't want to write another book. So I really had my work cut out for me with Evolution of Godd...