What if your Soul Work Isn't a Business?

Do you know how hard it's been for me to think of my Soul Work as a business?

My Soul Work could never really be defined as a job.

Or even a business.

Not then.

Not now.

Even at this stage of my life.

I've always had what people call a portfolio career.

Now, I think I have a portfolio life.

One part is spending two months in Crete with the grandchildren.

One part is playing pickleball—the sport that helped me reclaim the high school athlete I'd forgotten was still in me.

One part is sitting quietly with women and helping them see themselves in a way they never have before.

They're very different expressions.

But they're all my Soul Work.

Because Soul Work isn't just the thing that earns us money.

It's the way we express who we are.

It's how our gifts, our values, our experiences and our wisdom find their way into the world.

That's why I've been wondering if some of you read my last email and quietly thought,

"This sounds lovely, Bev...but I don't have a business."

If you did, I want you to know something.

Soul Work has never really been about building a business.

Yes, sometimes it becomes a business.

Sometimes it becomes a book.

Or a community.

Or a new career.

But just as often, it becomes something much quieter.

It becomes the woman in her third act who finally trusts her own wisdom.

The woman who stops apologizing for taking up space.

The artist who begins painting again after twenty years.

The volunteer who suddenly realizes she has something important to offer.

The friend who starts telling the truth.

The woman who realizes that simply being herself changes the people around her.

Soul Work isn't what you do.

It's the expression of who you have always been.

The work simply grows from there.