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Hearts Heal: Transforming Trauma with Blanca E. Rodriguez · The Heart-Led Business Show

• 0:01
  Speaker 2: Welcome to The Heart-Led Business Show, where compassion meets commerce and leaders lead with love.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Join your host, Tom Jackobs, as he delves into the insightful conversations with visionary business leaders who defy the status quo, putting humanity first and profit second.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: From heartfelt strategies to inspiring stories, this podcast is your compass in the world of conscious capitalism.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: So buckle up and let's go.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Let your heart guide your business journey.
• 0:39
  Tom Jackobs: Blend our ears to the lady who lavishes love on loyal lap dogs and limber seniors, a maestro in massage, zumba zone, and a toastmaster titan, Blanca Rodriguez.
• 0:49
  Tom Jackobs: Buckle up as we dive into her heart-led hustle on the heart-led business show.
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  Tom Jackobs: It's sure to be a positively enlightening experience.
• 0:59
  Tom Jackobs: Blanca, welcome to the show.
• 1:01
  Blanca Rodriguez: Thank you so much for having me, Tom.
• 1:02
  Blanca Rodriguez: It's a joy and an honor to be here.
• 1:05
  Tom Jackobs: So glad you're here and I'm positively mission.
• 1:08
  Tom Jackobs: The excited to have this conversation with you and what you do, because it's so unique and I think you can really get some creative juices flowing for some of the listeners in terms of what heart-led businesses are really all about.
• 1:22
  Tom Jackobs: So, but the first question that I always like to ask is, what's your definition of a heart-led business?
• 1:28
  Blanca Rodriguez: To me and I have always led from the heart that I have done in my life, not only in my personal life, but my professional life.
• 1:35
  Blanca Rodriguez: Most than anything is it comes from the heart and that takes to being coming from childhood trauma, coming from a world of isolation, coming from a world of neglect, abuse, tragic passing of a loved one, growing up in a difficult situation where in a place.
• 1:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: It was, let's say, infested with chronic, untreated mental illnesses.
• 1:58
  Blanca Rodriguez: So I know how deep down the rabbit hole these situations can take people.
• 2:04
  Blanca Rodriguez: It certainly took me down those deep rabbit holes, very dark seasons of my life but turning it around into helping others improve themselves, taking those lessons to help others is definitely my biggest mission and that is why I really do have heart-led business.
• 2:24
  Tom Jackobs: So awesome and I like that definition as well, that you're taking what's happened in the past and repurposing that and making it really about the heart and serving other people.
• 2:35
  Tom Jackobs: So, that's really awesome.
• 2:36
  Tom Jackobs: So, Tell us a little bit about your heart-led business and what inspired you to start it.
• 2:41
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, absolutely.
• 2:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: My business name is Wounded Healer LLC and us wounded healers, all of these experiences in very dark seasons in our lives enables us to help others and that is why when I saw that name, I said, yes, that definitely resonates with me.
• 3:03
  Blanca Rodriguez: I wear many hats and I love hats, literally and figuratively.
• 3:08
  Blanca Rodriguez: I don't want to chew up the word.
• 3:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: I am a licensed massage therapist for 20 years.
• 3:13
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a certified canine massage therapist for nine years.
• 3:17
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a holistic life coach.
• 3:19
  Blanca Rodriguez: I've been a dancer, a professional dancer for 40 years.
• 3:23
  Blanca Rodriguez: I have the blessing and the miracle that I'm still teaching and my late fifties.
• 3:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a speaker.
• 3:30
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm an Amazon bestselling book co- author and educator.
• 3:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: Of course, I am a volunteer because the best gift is the one of giving and of course, I'm a Toastmaster.
• 3:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm an IRA director for Toastmasters and definitely I love every single hat that I wear.
• 3:49
  Blanca Rodriguez: I definitely do it with everything I am, with all the love in the world, because if I don't work out of, if I don't do this out of love, then it's meaningless and I am here to do meaningful things in this life.
• 4:05
  Blanca Rodriguez: Take those moments before and translate them into something for the better good of others and of course, starting with myself and this is what I do for a living.
• 4:18
  Tom Jackobs: That's awesome.
• 4:19
  Tom Jackobs: That is like a lot of hats, which is awesome.
• 4:21
  Tom Jackobs: How do you balance them?
• 4:22
  Tom Jackobs: Like what is a typical day for Blanca look like?
• 4:25
  Tom Jackobs: Well, a typical day, like today, I wake up early in the morning at six o'clock in the morning, every single day, I do my prayer, meditation, breathing exercises, I live close to the beach.
• 4:37
  Tom Jackobs: So I decided to look at the sunrise and go for a walk in the sunrise and then I have my camera with me.
• 4:44
  Tom Jackobs: So I did some make social media content as well, informing people about things that I learned that I think, and I feel like it can help others with their quality of life.
• 4:55
  Tom Jackobs: After that, I came home and I got ready for this phenomenal podcast.
• 4:59
  Tom Jackobs: Definitely, then I go to two rehab centers for drug addiction and alcohol abuse.
• 5:04
  Tom Jackobs: I do massage therapy there.
• 5:06
  Tom Jackobs: I help patients that are in distress and very chaotic situations.
• 5:10
  Tom Jackobs: It's one of the most important.
• 5:11
  Tom Jackobs: Pour in missions that I have done in my massage therapy career is what I'm doing right now.
• 5:16
  Tom Jackobs: It goes much further than just a massage than just helping people relax their muscles is a mission of love, compassion, and empathy.
• 5:25
  Tom Jackobs: And after that, I come home, have time with my husband and of course start a beautiful Toastmasters meeting tonight.
• 5:32
  Tom Jackobs: And after that, I have a coaching session with a client.
• 5:35
  Tom Jackobs: And of course, yes, I really do sleep good at night.
• 5:39
  Tom Jackobs: That's for sure.
• 5:39
  Tom Jackobs: There's always time for everything.
• 5:41
  Tom Jackobs: Yeah, if I, if we organize ourselves accordingly to what works for us definitely, it works wonders, it's amazing, and we do have healthy and harmonious lifestyles with this.
• 5:53
  Tom Jackobs: That's awesome and what, that's a really well scheduled day as well.
• 5:58
  Tom Jackobs: Is that a pretty typical day?
• 6:00
  Tom Jackobs: Is that, or is that this atypical?
• 6:02
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, absolutely, well, well, it's it varies from day to day lately, so it varies from, let's say on Fridays, I always have a Toastmasters meeting.
• 6:13
  Blanca Rodriguez: On Mondays, I have a Toastmasters meeting as an area director that I am, and I am a member of three different clubs.
• 6:20
  Blanca Rodriguez: So I do all of them depending on the day of the week.
• 6:24
  Blanca Rodriguez: I always assist to all of these meetings because they're very important for me.
• 6:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: And yes, and of course, family life, definitely.
• 6:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: That is one thing that is on the top of the list and yes, everything is scheduled and no, I don't have a cork up my butt, but everything is scheduled because otherwise.
• 6:44
  Blanca Rodriguez: It'll be everything is given to you because otherwise it's a mess.
• 6:49
  Blanca Rodriguez: And no, I had a messy lifestyle enough before.
• 6:52
  Blanca Rodriguez: So this is why it's like, okay, let's transition into this beautiful, harmonious.
• 6:58
  Blanca Rodriguez: Lifestyle that is, yes, it's highly scheduled, but at the same time, it goes with a beautiful flow of what I love to do, because these are things that I love to do on a daily basis.
• 7:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: It doesn't, I mean, sometimes it's like, oh my God, do I really have to do this?
• 7:13
  Blanca Rodriguez: And it's like, yeah, going to do it because, hey, let's face it, not every day we are in the same mindset of going out there and doing what we are going to do.
• 7:23
  Blanca Rodriguez: So what to do in those cases, a breather, calm it down, quiet the noise a little bit, and regroup and everything will be just fine.
• 7:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: Have some teas that is highly recommended.
• 7:35
  Blanca Rodriguez: I love my lemon ginger tea to wake the senses up.
• 7:38
  Blanca Rodriguez: And of course, my lavender and chamomile tea to calm the senses down at night.
• 7:44
  Blanca Rodriguez: So it's a beautiful combination.
• 7:46
  Tom Jackobs: Great.
• 7:46
  Tom Jackobs: Now which one of the businesses would you say is your primary business?
• 7:49
  Tom Jackobs: Right now..
• 7:50
  Blanca Rodriguez: My primary business right now is massage therapy.
• 7:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: Canine massage therapy, holistic life coaching, because I do them all.
• 7:58
  Blanca Rodriguez: And of course, I'm an assistant fitness instructor as well.
• 8:01
  Blanca Rodriguez: So I'm doing all of these on an almost daily basis.
• 8:04
  Blanca Rodriguez: And yes, it's a beautiful thing, a beautiful mission, a heart-led business that is absolutely, I mean, to me, I embrace it.
• 8:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: I am grateful for it every single day of my life.
• 8:18
  Blanca Rodriguez: And that is a miracle for us.
• 8:21
  Blanca Rodriguez: I mean, there's so many people out there that they absolutely despise their jobs that they build businesses.
• 8:28
  Blanca Rodriguez: And then they say to themselves, what the hell am I doing here?
• 8:31
  Blanca Rodriguez: Why am I doing this?
• 8:32
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm starting to despise what I'm doing.
• 8:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: And that's when we missed the point big time.
• 8:36
  Tom Jackobs: Yeah.
• 8:36
  Tom Jackobs: Well, and at those, I mean, there's always going to be those days, like you said, and you just take a breather and I always find that reframing the mental words in my brain versus, you know, instead of saying, you have to do this today.
• 8:49
  Tom Jackobs: I get to do it today it's a privilege honor to be able to serve others in a, at a high level as well.
• 8:55
  Tom Jackobs: Tell us a little bit about the canine massage therapy.
• 8:59
  Tom Jackobs: You're the first person I've met that does canine massage therapy.
• 9:04
  Tom Jackobs: And I think that's absolutely fascinating.
• 9:05
  Tom Jackobs: I love dogs.
• 9:06
  Blanca Rodriguez: Oh I grew up around dogs and the relationship between dog and human it's the most, this is one of the biggest bonds that anybody can have.
• 9:16
  Blanca Rodriguez: Our dogs loves us unconditionally.
• 9:18
  Blanca Rodriguez: They are beings that their love, it has no comparison to the love of a human being because they are unconditional.
• 9:26
  Blanca Rodriguez: It doesn't matter if we're sad, angry, happy, whatever it is that is going on in our lives, they will always be there for us to love us no matter what.
• 9:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: Canine massage therapy started very ancient times, 2700 BC to be exact.
• 9:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: And one of the most famous.
• 9:44
  Blanca Rodriguez: One of the most famous personalities in history that we know from Canine Massage is Julius Caesar.
• 9:51
  Blanca Rodriguez: Julius Caesar used to take his massage therapist with him to war.
• 9:56
  Blanca Rodriguez: He had epilepsy.
• 9:58
  Blanca Rodriguez: Therapy calms epilepsy symptoms.
• 10:00
  Blanca Rodriguez: Well, his very smart massage therapist will massage his very ferocious war dogs.
• 10:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: And these war dogs worked more efficiently thanks to being massaged.
• 10:13
  Blanca Rodriguez: Fast forward all the way to these days here in the US, canine massage therapy and any kind of animal massage therapy was introduced through equine massage therapy back in the seventies of course, soon after canine massage therapy was introduced and amazing platforms like the West Minister club and the American kennel club approve of the practices of canine massage therapy for the best quality of life of their animal.
• 10:40
  Blanca Rodriguez: I have worked on puppies all the way to seniors, all the way to dogs before they're crossing the rainbow and is one of the most important missions that I have had in my professional career.
• 10:55
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, it's a dirty job.
• 10:57
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, they drool.
• 10:59
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, they get emotional, but it's totally worth it, they know that when I'm going through that door, the first thing that's going to happen is love, treats and massage.
• 11:08
  Blanca Rodriguez: So they are like, come on over lady.
• 11:10
  Blanca Rodriguez: We know what's happening.
• 11:12
  Blanca Rodriguez: And it's a very powerful practice.
• 11:14
  Blanca Rodriguez: Just like normal massage therapy is for us humans, that it helps us improve our quality of life.
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  Blanca Rodriguez: 31 percent of cortisol levels of stress hormone cortisol goes down with treatment of massage therapy and 30 percent of the happy chemicals in our bodies.
• 11:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins go up with one session of massage.
• 11:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: And of course, with dogs, it's exactly the same.
• 11:38
  Blanca Rodriguez: Us, humans and dogs, we are mammals.
• 11:41
  Blanca Rodriguez: We have muscle systems, organs, feelings emotional chemical balances are going on and yes, canine massage therapy has been that long the Roman Empire, the high end Roman Empire people of course they had massage therapists for their horses and their dogs as well through history.
• 12:00
  Blanca Rodriguez: It started in China and of course all the way to the Americas nowadays and I highly recommend that you provide your dog with a massage because our dogs put up with our crap so they're worth it and we know it.
• 12:14
  Tom Jackobs: Absolutely.
• 12:15
  Tom Jackobs: Yeah that, that's great.
• 12:16
  Tom Jackobs: So let's shift gears a little bit and let's talk about the business side of having a heart-led business.
• 12:21
  Tom Jackobs: Cause I know a lot of practitioners struggle with the money side or the business side of having a heart-led business.
• 12:28
  Tom Jackobs: How do you handle the business side for your heart-led business?
• 12:32
  Blanca Rodriguez: Well, I can tell you this.
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  Blanca Rodriguez: I was in that group of people that it was so hard for me to say, Hey, this is going to cost you this because us givers, we love giving and let's face it.
• 12:47
  Blanca Rodriguez: By giving and giving, we won't be able to put the rice and beans on the table.
• 12:53
  Blanca Rodriguez: and once I understood that big fact, that's when I said, okay, I am worth this person's time and this person's money.
• 13:03
  Blanca Rodriguez: And here we go again, us healers, our relationship with money is not necessarily the best one.
• 13:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: We feel like, no, we should just give and give because it comes from the heart, because it's what I love to do.
• 13:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I want to help I got to help myself as well.
• 13:17
  Blanca Rodriguez: I got to help myself first in order for me to efficiently help others.
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  Blanca Rodriguez: And this is when being compensated financially is so vital to heart, to have a heart-led business.
• 13:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: And once I understood that, yes, I can volunteer with many platforms, which I still do to this day, but Hey.
• 13:37
  Blanca Rodriguez: This mama needs to get so I can have efficiency and serve others and grow with others and keep on learning because in my line of work, I'm a teacher.
• 13:48
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a student.
• 13:49
  Blanca Rodriguez: And that combination will never go out of style.
• 13:52
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a teacher.
• 13:53
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm a student.
• 13:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: I always, I'm always investing in myself and my knowledge and my growth so I can help others through my growth as well.
• 14:02
  Blanca Rodriguez: And this is why it's so important to yes, get paid.
• 14:05
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes, you know your worth.
• 14:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: You get paid accordingly.
• 14:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: A lot of people pay a lot of other people of dollars for their services and it's because they are worth it.
• 14:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: I have paid thousands of dollars for people's services.
• 14:18
  Blanca Rodriguez: I am a holistic life coach.
• 14:19
  Blanca Rodriguez: I have a coach and I paid and I pay for my life coach services and that's absolutely worth it.
• 14:26
  Blanca Rodriguez: And the same way my life coach is absolutely worth it.
• 14:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: I am worth it as well.
• 14:31
  Blanca Rodriguez: So I take it from there definitely.
• 14:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: But I know where I come from and it was the compromise.
• 14:36
  Blanca Rodriguez: It's like, oh my God, I am being a yes person way too much and that, and anything done in excess is equally detrimental for our health, like saying yes too much or saying no too much.
• 14:50
  Blanca Rodriguez: And this is when I learned the lesson tremendously and I said, no, I am as much as my life coach is as much as my teachers are so yes I definitely take it from there and no hard feelings here.
• 15:03
  Blanca Rodriguez: I don't feel bad about it all the whole opposite.
• 15:05
  Blanca Rodriguez: I feel joy When people appreciate and respect my worth.
• 15:10
  Tom Jackobs: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Tom Jackobs: So when did the shift happen from giving too much to then finally realizing, Hey, I need to make some money doing this, or I need to do something different because it's clearly not working?
• 15:21
  Tom Jackobs: When did that shift happen for you?
• 15:23
  Blanca Rodriguez: That shift happen when I understood my self-worth much more.
• 15:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: I come from childhood trauma.
• 15:31
  Blanca Rodriguez: I come from isolation, neglect, low self-worth, low self-esteem, self-sabotage, self-destruction.
• 15:37
  Blanca Rodriguez: So all of those emotions, I had them for a very long time and going around that vicious circle that led me nowhere.
• 15:46
  Blanca Rodriguez: I was stagnant.
• 15:47
  Blanca Rodriguez: I was stuck and when I started to get out of that vicious circle of going absolutely nowhere is when I really started to find my wealth and starting to get healthier, not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, and when we step into that power.
• 16:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: When we find that self-worth, when we say, wow, I have invested a lot of my time and money to be really good at my craft is when I understood it's like, okay, it's time to really apply all of this knowledge to myself because knowledge is not power unless we apply that knowledge to ourselves.
• 16:26
  Blanca Rodriguez: And once I went, I got into that place.
• 16:30
  Blanca Rodriguez: I didn't look back and I'm still not looking back.
• 16:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: I look back a little bit to remind myself of where I used to be and where I am now and understand that life is about progress, not perfection.
• 16:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I'm very happy with where I am and the place where I am right now and who I am, who I have been because I taken all of those lessons and apply.
• 16:52
  Blanca Rodriguez: Take the lessons and apply.
• 16:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: And that's definitely the pivotal moment when I said, okay, I am worth it was when my self-esteem and my confidence that combination right there, in my case, this is my story.
• 17:06
  Blanca Rodriguez: This is my personal journey.
• 17:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: But when those came together, self-worth, confidence, and what I do and what I know and what my expertise is, that's it.
• 17:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: Okay.
• 17:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: That's it.
• 17:16
  Blanca Rodriguez: This is when I am getting compensated for what my, for what I'm worth.
• 17:20
  Blanca Rodriguez: And it's quite a bit.
• 17:21
  Tom Jackobs: So self-esteem, self-worth for you was that trigger then to realize, wait, I need to charge more for my services or actually start charging or charge for the services as well.
• 17:33
  Tom Jackobs: Yeah.
• 17:33
  Tom Jackobs: That's totally tracks, right?
• 17:34
  Tom Jackobs: Are there any stories that you'd like to share in terms of some triumphs that have come from or challenges that have come up from having a heart-led business versus a business just focused on making a profit?
• 17:44
  Blanca Rodriguez: Yes.
• 17:45
  Blanca Rodriguez: Before becoming a massage therapist, I work for the hotel industry.
• 17:50
  Blanca Rodriguez: I was a secretary for an engineering firm in Puerto Rico.
• 17:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: I've been living in the U.
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  Blanca Rodriguez: S.
• 17:56
  Blanca Rodriguez: for 21 years already.
• 17:57
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I remember those times when I went to work to make money to make that check and It was not from the heart.
• 18:05
  Blanca Rodriguez: I always, I've always been a helper.
• 18:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: I always love to help others and assist others.
• 18:10
  Blanca Rodriguez: That has been all of my life, my mission.
• 18:13
  Blanca Rodriguez: Consciously, I didn't really know it, but subconsciously I've always been a helper in the helping industry and when I was a secretary, I went to work, I did my job and I went home.
• 18:24
  Blanca Rodriguez: And of course, being a secretary, when the boss will mess it up, the boss will tell all of his clients or friends, Oh, my secretary didn't do this.
• 18:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: My secretary didn't do that.
• 18:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: She didn't, and no, it was him all along.
• 18:36
  Blanca Rodriguez: I said, well, that's lovely to look like the dumb ass.
• 18:39
  Blanca Rodriguez: In front of everybody because the secretary is an idiot.
• 18:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: And that was one of those things that I said, I am tired of this crap.
• 18:47
  Blanca Rodriguez: And when I moved to the US at 38 years old, I said to myself, I am going back to school and I'm going to do something that is significant in my life.
• 18:59
  Blanca Rodriguez: And when I went back to school for massage therapy, I was in a relationship plagued with domestic abuse, I had two little kids.
• 19:06
  Blanca Rodriguez: My personal life was in shambles.
• 19:08
  Blanca Rodriguez: It was a chaos.
• 19:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: It was a hurricane of bad emotions.
• 19:12
  Blanca Rodriguez: But there was something in me in there that said, I am going to progress in life.
• 19:18
  Blanca Rodriguez: I am going to move on from this.
• 19:20
  Blanca Rodriguez: I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to make it happen anyway.
• 19:23
  Blanca Rodriguez: And comparing to what my professional life was in Puerto Rico to what it is in the U.
• 19:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: S.
• 19:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: is like night and day.
• 19:32
  Blanca Rodriguez: I do something now, well for the last 20 years, I have the blessing and the miracle to do something that is significant in my life.
• 19:40
  Blanca Rodriguez: Something that is important in my life.
• 19:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: Something that with all of the wear and tear that I have after more than 20 years massaging people, I still go out there with my little bag and my table saying what I'm doing is worth it.
• 19:54
  Blanca Rodriguez: It's, I love to do it.
• 19:56
  Blanca Rodriguez: I still love to do it.
• 19:57
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I'm always learning something new every day in this massage therapy career because the learning never ends.
• 20:04
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I love to feed my brain with new things, new experiences, and when I was a massage therapist, when I started in school, that it will lead me to being a holistic life coach, being a speaker, being a book author.
• 20:18
  Blanca Rodriguez: It led me to everything that I am doing today.
• 20:22
  Blanca Rodriguez: And then I look back to my life, my work life in Puerto Rico and I say, wow, I don't miss you for absolutely anything from this bogus.
• 20:32
  Blanca Rodriguez: Paycheck.
• 20:33
  Blanca Rodriguez: I just want my money.
• 20:34
  Blanca Rodriguez: I do my job efficiently.
• 20:37
  Blanca Rodriguez: Give me my check.
• 20:38
  Blanca Rodriguez: I go home and let's do it over and over again to where I am now, which is a heart-led business.
• 20:45
  Blanca Rodriguez: And I'm very grateful and honored to do it every day.
• 20:48
  Tom Jackobs: That's beautiful.
• 20:49
  Tom Jackobs: And what a transition too, in terms of, you know, just going in, not really caring about the job, just doing it efficiently, doing the bare minimum and collecting the paycheck to now.
• 20:59
  Tom Jackobs: That's incredible.
• 21:00
  Tom Jackobs: What kind of advice would you give to somebody that might be struggling in their heart-led business right now in terms of making a profit and wondering like, Oh, do I just sell out and just look for the profit?
• 21:12
  Tom Jackobs: Or do I continue doing my heart-led work?
• 21:15
  Tom Jackobs: What type of advice would you give to somebody like that?
• 21:17
  Blanca Rodriguez: Well, when any business that is starting, you're always going to have struggles.
• 21:22
  Blanca Rodriguez: You're going to always going to have challenges and most of the time we know this with a new business, it takes at least two years to really start seeing a profit.
• 21:32
  Blanca Rodriguez: So what I did in my experience, what I did, and this was a big sacrifice and it was worth it.
• 21:38
  Blanca Rodriguez: I started my business, but I kept paycheck business.
• 21:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: Okay.
• 21:43
  Blanca Rodriguez: I get that but still I'm a massage therapist.
• 21:45
  Blanca Rodriguez: I still love what I do.
• 21:46
  Blanca Rodriguez: So don't give up.
• 21:48
  Blanca Rodriguez: Don't give up.
• 21:50
  Blanca Rodriguez: If this is what you want to do from you, from the bottom of your heart, it'll work out.
• 21:55
  Blanca Rodriguez: I promise you that.
• 21:56
  Blanca Rodriguez: But every business is an investment.
• 22:00
  Blanca Rodriguez: Don't be focusing on, I'm going to get paid immediately because that is not.
• 22:07
  Blanca Rodriguez: You got to invest in order to receive and that has always been my mindset all throughout this beautiful career.
• 22:16
  Blanca Rodriguez: It has always been about investing in my knowledge, investing in my progress, and then see the profit coming in later on.
• 22:25
  Blanca Rodriguez: So be patient, it'll work out.
• 22:28
  Blanca Rodriguez: You got this.
• 22:29
  Blanca Rodriguez: I promise you.
• 22:30
  Tom Jackobs: Nice.
• 22:30
  Tom Jackobs: That's great advice and certainly you've experienced all of that through, throughout your career and your journey as well.
• 22:36
  Tom Jackobs: So thank you again for sharing that.
• 22:38
  Tom Jackobs: So how can people learn a little bit more about you and the speaking that you do and all the other things in your book as well?
• 22:44
  Tom Jackobs: And potentially work with you.
• 22:46
  Blanca Rodriguez: Of course, you can check my website out.
• 22:49
  Blanca Rodriguez: Every single thing is there.
• 22:52
  Blanca Rodriguez: It's www.woundedhealer.us You can find all information that you need from me.
• 23:01
  Blanca Rodriguez: Come on over.
• 23:02
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm here for you.
• 23:03
  Blanca Rodriguez: And for all the listeners out there, I want to give you a complimentary life coaching session.
• 23:09
  Blanca Rodriguez: There is no limit on time.
• 23:10
  Blanca Rodriguez: One, two hours, whatever it is.
• 23:12
  Blanca Rodriguez: And yes, let's share the experience.
• 23:15
  Blanca Rodriguez: Let's make this.
• 23:16
  Blanca Rodriguez: Do you want to experience a powerful life coaching session?
• 23:20
  Blanca Rodriguez: Please contact me.
• 23:21
  Blanca Rodriguez: I'm here to help and it will be my honor.
• 23:23
  Blanca Rodriguez: Honor to be there for you.
• 23:25
  Blanca Rodriguez: Don't do it alone.
• 23:27
  Tom Jackobs: Wow.
• 23:27
  Tom Jackobs: That was so generous of you.
• 23:29
  Tom Jackobs: I know our listeners will certainly appreciate that as well.
• 23:32
  Tom Jackobs: Thanks again for coming onto the show and sharing your story and your wisdom with us.
• 23:36
  Tom Jackobs: I really appreciate it and I know our listeners appreciate it as well.
• 23:40
  Tom Jackobs: So thank you very much.
• 23:41
  Blanca Rodriguez: Thank you.
• 23:42
  Blanca Rodriguez: Thank you, Tom, for having me here.
• 23:44
  Blanca Rodriguez: What a great pleasure and an honor it was for me to be here.
• 23:47
  Blanca Rodriguez: Thank you for everything you do.
• 23:48
  Tom Jackobs: Great.
• 23:48
  Tom Jackobs: And thank you listeners for watching or listening to the show, depending on what platform you're on.
• 23:52
  Tom Jackobs: I know we definitely appreciate it.
• 23:54
  Tom Jackobs: Blanca appreciates you as well.
• 23:56
  Tom Jackobs: And make sure that you're checking out everything that Blanca is doing.
• 23:59
  Tom Jackobs: We'll provide all of those links down into the show notes.
• 24:02
  Tom Jackobs: So make sure you're checking that out and take her up on that offer for a free coaching session.
• 24:06
  Tom Jackobs: That's a pretty amazing and if you could do me a solid favor and do what other smart and considerate listeners are doing and sharing this show with a friend or a loved one who could use the advice that we've shared on today's show.
• 24:18
  Tom Jackobs: And until next time, lead with your heart.
• 24:22
  Speaker: You've been listening to The Heart-Led Business Show, hosted by Tom Jackobs.
• 24:27
  Speaker: Join us next time for another inspiring journey into the heart of business.