Welcome to the Thrive by Design Podcast, Episode 329. Hey there, it's Tracy Matthews, Chief Visionary Officer of Flourish and Thrive Academy, host of the Thrive by Design podcast and the author of the Desired Brand Effect, you can pick up your copy right now on Amazon. It is getting five star reviews, I am super pumped for it. And I want to thank all of you who have read the book and have reached out to me telling sharing your story and how it's impacted you already that makes me so so happy. And people who have like, awesome businesses, I'm super impressed. In fact, my girl, Jules Kim is traveling the world and I sent her a book. And she started posting about it. And she's like, Oh, my gosh, this is so good and so needed for our industry. So I hope that you'll pick up a copy whether you have a jewelry or a product business. And I hope that it supports you and helps you and if you don't and you know a jewelry designer or product business owner in your life, I would love for you to share that with them. Well, today's episode is a very special topic. We were getting a lot of requests from people in our audience to talk about artists and mental health. And I know during the holidays, sometimes it's like a sensitive time for people because people, maybe they've lost their parents, or they're struggling with depression, or for whatever reason. It's just a hard time because there's a lot of stress, you know, wrapping up the New Year and getting all the orders done and all the things and it takes a lot of conscientious effort to take care of yourself. And so I wanted to bring on a friend of mine, Jennifer Tippet to talk a little bit more about healing your trauma. Now this is a big conversation, I hope that you save this podcast episode because it's a good one. I have another one coming out later in the week to about mental wealth and artists, which is a similar conversation about reframing your conversation about wealth, health, mental health as an artist, so keep an eye out for that as well. But today's episode, we really talked about how trauma can frame your experience in everyday life and how that might shape the way you're approaching your business. And so this is a really sensitive topic, I want to also give you a trigger warning because we do talk about things like alternative therapies and plant medicine and stuff like that. So fair warning, if you're not into that stuff, and you're not interested in learning about that stuff. We are going to dig deep into some of those things. With that being said, I am before I do my intro for Jennifer, I wanted to just say like we're wrapping up the end of the year, and we are about to start a brand new cohort of our Momentum Program. And last week, I hosted a masterclass called 'An Inside Look at a 7 Figure Jewelry Company'. You can check out the show notes if you want to watch the on demand version of that masterclass. So this kind of breaks this down for you. But we I shared that masterclass for a very specific reason, because people were reaching out to me, who have very established businesses who are trying to stop driving themselves crazy start making more money in their business because they even though their sales are good, their profit margins are not. I think a lot of times that happens there is a variety of reasons why that happens. But a lot of times it happens because your business isn't very efficient. And you have some opportunities inside the business to create more efficiency. And so, in that on during that masterclass, I talked a lot about the structures and the systems in the protocols for building a team for training your team for keeping your team accountable, and a lot more. And these are all frameworks and conversations that we support our designers with in our Momentum Program. So if you're someone who has actually built a fairly successful business, maybe you're in you've gotten to where you are to six figures or something by yourself or you're kind of crossing that multiple six figure marker and you're trying to figure out how to scale your company. But you're really stressed out and it's hard. It feels overwhelming a lot of the time because you're wearing all the hats and you feel like it's hard because it's easier to just do it yourself. And so that keeps you playing small or selling less than you, then you normally would. And I promise you that if you structure the inside of your company the right way that will change, there is basically a ramp up period. And you will always have to revisit this. I'm not saying it's like a set it and forget it situation. But it can definitely help. If you're interested in learning more about how we can support you with some of those things, building a team, growing your sales, scaling your revenue, and removing yourself from basically the day to day of your operation so that you can actually be more strategic with what you're doing in your business, I'd love to invite you to apply to our momentum program. It's an incredible program, we have some Rockstar designers in there who have been in for many years who keep renewing because of the value that they're getting. So if this is something you're interested in learning more about, you can head on over to Flourishthriveacademy.com/momentum, we will also have this in the show notes. And check out the program fill out an application today. And if you want to just go straight to the application, because you don't want to be bothered with all the other stuff. We'll also have a link for that as well in the show notes. So I wanted to dive in to this conversation with Jennifer Tippet. She is a professor at the University of Denver and the Director of Substance and Use Disorder Secialty units in the Doctoral program. She specializes in research and trauma and addiction and the use of psychedelic medicine in a therapeutic setting. And she specifically focuses on severe and persistent mental illness like schizophrenia, long term depression, and bipolar disorder. So this conversation is really interesting. But as I mentioned before, some of the protocols that they recommend for healing are are not recommended that they're basically doing research on for healing are actually doing incredible things for people with PTSD and trauma. So if you feel like you could use some additional support, or you're just curious about how this might look for you, we aren't condoning the use of any substances or anything like that. But at the end of the day, there are a lot of alternative therapies that are working extremely well for people who have experienced severe trauma, or are suffering with other types of mental illness. So we're about to dive in. But before I do, if you are suffering from any sort of mental illness, and you need help, please look up the mentalhealthhotline.org and call someone talk to a counselor or someone who can get you some support as needed. We are not mental health, I am not excuse me, I should say, a mental health expert or someone who is, you know, psychologist or anything like that. So please do your research and get support from people who can actually who have the background and the skills to support you.