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I'm so fascinated by sea shells. These days in moments where I’m contemplating in my work I reach for them from a bowl I’ve been keeping in front of me. I’m fascinated by their beauty and also because they show how waves and spirals got frozen in time.

I like to hold them, feel their silky smoothness on the inside, and the roughness on the other that I could scrape off my callouses with.

I like that their shapes mimic the ocean. Shells actually look like the same waves and spirals that make th…

How Nicole Mapu Transformed Her Life Purpose into a Business - the Freedom Birth Revolution

This woman has so much raw energy pulsing through her veins.

She’s on her authentic soul’s journey and it’s showing up as a business in service to others in the world of birth. I had the privilege of working with her 3 years ago to conceive of her life’s work as a business. At that time she pulled together all of her passions for conception, child birth, sexuality, dance and movement together in a w…

Without Having to Endure Attacks and Disapproval

Are you the one who doesn’t mind making everybody feel uncomfortable?

Truth-telling, change loving and revolutionary thinkers get a lot of recoil reactions when they spill their beans. I know LOL!!

Before I learned how to communicate with an open heart and sensitivity I used to get a tonne of bad feedback. Many years ago I even had one friend  react violently, not to me thankfully. But when the glass he threw shattered into a million pieces o…

Personally, after I broke out of the corporate jail of my family business in marketing, and did my own art/ music/archetypes/wellness/teaching/spiritual/business thing, I was going in every direction like a kid let loose in a candy store.

But I was literally terrified every time someone asked me “What you do?”

I was terrified for three reasons.

1. I didn’t want to be pigeon-holed.

Because I was doing so many different things I didn’t know how to tell people what I did without being pige…

“Hey I didn’t die!” (AWKWARD)

The oncologist that had treated me for 3 years, who had told me I wasn’t going to survive my cancer, nodded his head and began to walk away.

There I was in the very same treatment rooms at the Health Sciences Centre where I’d sat for nearly 300 hundred hours in 3 years, receiving chemo.

But this time I wasn’t taking chemo, I was singing like a birdie and playing guitar for an ‘Artists in Healthcare’ program I’d been hired for.

It looked like he didn’t recogniz…

Returning Humanity Back to Its Rightful Nature

By Beth Martens Archetypes are traditionally said to live in the unconscious, and were discovered by Carl Jung in his epic breakthroughs on human consciousness. I saved my life from cancer working with archetypes, and saw how they can be awakened out of the unconscious and  magically go from feeling like an enemy to being a superpower that exists to help us complete our missions on earth in the human family.

In 2015 when my dad died of cancer, an…

This woman has so much to teach and offer in the world.

She’s heard her call and answered it by creating a business in service to helping others with self love, her field of expertise.

Crafted out of her own life’s journey, her unique marriage of art and science together for the sake of truth and guiding people to their own.

I had the privilege of working with her 7 years ago to conceive of her life’s work as a business. At that time she pulled together all her passions for nutrition, fitne…

Through the Lens of Writer and Poet, Tanya Markul: A MerPreneur's Journey

Hey Beth here, I had the great privilege of interviewing an amazing writer, poet and author of several published works including “The She Book”, Tanya Markul creator of Thug Unicorn blog and the the Eat My Stardust" writing course.

I wanted to interview her because after watching her work evolve for the past years, I dubbed her a bonafide MerPreneur who is being valued for her authentic life’s work.

She takes the adve…

The MerPreneur's Journey Through the Lens of Writer and Poet, Tanya Markul

Part 2 of a 5-part article series

The questions I asked her in this 5 part series are an archetypal map of the MerPreneur's Journey, the heroic journey for slaying the demon-mermaid-dragons, for returning to community with the gold and being valued for it so it's a sustainable movement.

The Warrior is about where you have put in the muscle, gone the distance and taken the time to create. It's the energy it takes to be …

The MerPreneur's Journey Through the Lens of Writer and Poet, Tanya Markul

Part 1 of a 5-Part Article Series

I had the great privilege of interviewing this amazing writer, poet and author of several published works including “The She Book”, the Thug Unicorn blog and the the Eat My Stardust" writing course.

I wanted to interview Tanya because after watching her work evolve for the past several years, I realized she is a bonafide MerPreneur who is being valued for her authentic life’s work.