2019-02-05
59 分钟So at 38 years old, my guest today, Suzy Bateese, was depressed and struggling through her second bankruptcy.
But a handful of years later, she found herself sitting on top of a $400 million company that she had built from the ground up around bathroom motor and done the whole thing with zero debt.
But that journey was anything but traditional.
Standing in the eye of the storm, Suzy experienced what she calls the surprising.
Luxury of losing everything.
And she'd lived through poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, multiple bankruptcies, and a suicide attempt.
She was at a point where she was kind of seeking deeper answers, so she decided to actually try something completely different.
She turned to therapeutic ceremony with plant based medicine.
Ayahuasca in particular was a thing that she began to work with as a path to processing and letting go of her past and awakening her sense of possibility and freedom.
While it wasn't fun, as she shares in her conversation, in fact, she describes the early ceremonies as kind of horrific.
Susie began to experience shifts and lightness and freedom that she'd been seeking.
And along the way, a deceptively simple idea for a new venture kind of dropped.
Surprisingly, it was about blending her love of essential oils with entrepreneurship and a simple, near universal need.
And this led to the creation of something called pooh pourri, which is a bathroom spray, along with a massively viral ad campaign and a company she's now grown into pretty much a behemoth with no debt and complete control.
And as we sat down to record this conversation, Suzy was in the process of shifting gears, once again devoting a pretty significant portion of her energies and brilliance and love towards the launch of a new conscious plant based cleaning product venture called Supernatural.
And along with that, she's become really focused on teaching entrepreneurs what she would call the feminine approach to business.
How to tune into intuition, turn on your body intelligence, and dive into creative energy to achieve what she says is a naturally abundant flow state called resonance.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
And, you know, there was a lot of racism.