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This week I'm sharing a really special interview I had with Jenn Aubert, all about how to boost your sacred business with the power of crystals.   Introduction: Ditch the distractions and aim for unstoppable. Honest talk about stepping fully into your business and life. Welcome to "From Stuck to Unstoppable", with your host Jenn Aubert of LearnSavvy. Jenn Aubert: Hey unstoppable listeners, this is Jenn Aubert. Thank so much for being here. I'm super excited to welcome our special guest today, Ashley Leavy. Ashley is the Founder and Educational Director of the Love and Light School of Crystal Therapy where their mission is to share the power of crystal healing with people all over the world. She is also the owner of Mimosa Books & Gifts in Madison, Wisconsin. So, welcome to our show Ashley. Ashley Leavy: Oh, thank you so much for having me, Jenn. Jenn: I'm so excited to chat today about how to integrate healing practices into our business, and in particular, crystal healing, to enhance our business success. So, this is going to be a lot of fun and I'm excited to dive in. Ashley: Me too, I can't wait to get started. Jenn: Okay. You've been teaching crystal therapy for many years. How did you get into this field and decide to create this as a business and a certificate program around it all? Ashley: You know, Jenn, it's kind of one of those things that, believe it or not, just sort of snuck up on me. I mean, when you're a child, if you have a lot of great support from your friends and family, and people that are encouraging you, you're always told you can be anything you want to be. Normally, those options are limited to ballerina, firefighter, and President of the United States, but no one ever tells you that you can be a crystal healer. This is not even something I knew existed, and I just sort of kind of fell into it. I've been really attracted to crystals ever since I was a little girl. I spent a lot of time with my grandfather when I was young, and he's very scientific-minded. He was actually a chemical engineer for many years, and he had this huge collection of minerals. I would go spend the summers with my grandparents a lot of the time and he would just share with me all these things about the crystals, and tell me about where they were mined or what they were used for. It was all very scientific. There was no woo-woo metaphysical stuff when it came to our discussions. I remember getting this book from him for Christmas when I was in third grade, and it was a Smithsonian Institute guide to crystals and minerals. Reading through that book which had great tips about earth science, and really interesting stuff about minerals and how they were used, the thing that really stood out to me the most were the little passages about the history, and lore, and legend of crystals and how they had been revered by humans for thousands of years for different purposes. That just kind of opened my eyes to this whole new area of crystals that I hadn't been exposed to before. It was so interesting because I was always really into mythology and things like that. I started exploring that and doing a lot of self-study. Then, in 2007, I took my first professional crystal healing training, really at that time just for myself because I wanted to explore my own personal growth and self awareness when it came to working with crystals. But as soon as I took that first professional training, I knew that this was something that I had to do with clients. I wanted to work with people. To actually do this professionally. I had no idea what I was doing, I was just 22 years old. I was in college finishing my degree in Botany and I was really, really unhappy with that. My first degree was in ornamental horticulture, which I love, but I had all this family pressure to go out and do something more, and be something more. Going back to school for this degree in Botany, I thought, well, maybe I'll become a teacher.