How To Balance Your Masculine + Feminine Energy As A Woman Entrepreneur: Maren Liv Anderson Moore On The Ruby Hour Podcast
How do you settle and recharge into the feminine [ease, gentleness, softness] while still conducting power as a woman entrepreneur when it comes to your business?
How To Balance Your Masculine + Feminine Energy As A Woman Entrepreneur: Maren Liv Anderson Moore On The Ruby Hour Podcast
Today we have the pleasure of having Maren Liv Anderson Moore on the Ruby Hour Podcast.
How I Know Maren
I met Maren Liv Anderson Moore soul-to-soul first in an intimate spiritual work / small group setting just a few years ago, and she held space for some really sacred parts of coming to terms with my infertility diagnosis.
She's a fellow weight lifting mama, too, we love cheering one another on in the gym each week.
Who Is This Woman?
Mama. Serial Entrepreneur. Multi-Faceted Girl Boss. Redefining The Childcare Space In Charleston, S.C.
Maren, like so many of us creative women in business, is a serial multi-faceted entrepreneur with multiple businesses (yet there's that same thread of passion woven throughout all of them.)
In this episode, we have such a beautiful conversation around:
balancing the masculine and the feminine energy you bring to the table as a woman entrepreneur,
how to "come down" from being in your head or in the masculine chronically in your business
how to steward your "creative tension" or discomfort working through a struggle in your life
all things inner-development/ shadow work / spiritual work and some things to look for to find a safe group setting to explore those deeper levels of yourself and
life as a "textbook" enneagram Seven.
"There are certain things you just come into this world with - I've always been a natural mother…."
- Maren Liv Anderson Moore
If you've ever spent any time with Maren, you immediately feel her warm, inclusive mama energy. In this episode we explore her journey with redefining the childcare space in Charleston. Maren founded Play Garden, creative arts learning center with a focus on childcare that appeals to different children's intrinsic learning styles and educational learning theories, AND complements so many parents who are no longer doing the nine-to-five work schedule and need something different for their family.
You can learn more about Maren over at @KidsGarden https://kidsplaygarden.com/ and her gorgeous event space @NaturalGatheringGrounds https://www.naturalgatheringgrounds.com/ .
Low on time? JUMP TO A SECTION:
2:19 What is Kids Garden, and how did Maren get started in business?
4:26 Tell me about Kids Garden and how it's defining childcare offerings for parents in this non-9-to-5 day and age.
9:26 What is YOUR "why" of your gift towards children and nurturing young souls?
Children come into the world so fresh; so give them opportunities to get INTO their learning and adventuring.
13:46 - Being in the masculine energy in business versus feminine energy.
14:16 What does masculine energy feel like to me in business?
14:59 - What does feminine energy feel like in business?
15:46 Polarization of masculine and feminine in energy as woman entrepreneurs in business
16:16 I don't need to be more beastly in my life and business as a woman. How do you settle into the feminine while still conducting power when it comes to your business?
17:15 How does the masculine and the feminine show up in your life as a female business owner?
18:22 Maren's experience as a Seven as an enneagram. [Living from her head, versus heart or body.]
20:21 - Clear and direct is kind. More words say less.
22:22 Softness begets Softness. How I am finding more Softness in my life and finding more of the feminine in my personal life and business
22:57 - The facade of "having it all together" as an amateur just starting my business - hiding behind masculine energy.
25:23 I don't feel venom in your feminine energy. Maren's experience having a male spiritual teacher.
26:16 The gift of opening with a sharp knife versus a dull sword
27:57 What brought you into your spiritual / therapy / deep inner-work journey?
31:33 A personal moment from my life - bioenergetic work around an infertility diagnosis and the rage and heartbreak that went with that trauma
33:13 Group Work: how to pick a safe space / spiritual circle
34:51 - Maren's experience being in the room while Shelby worked through bioenergetic work around an infertility diagnosis // bravery and holding space
36:28 "If I fall, don't pick me up." What does it mean to "not save someone" and sitting in the discomfort of a circumstance versus solving someone else's problem for them
39:54 - How to sit in your discomfort
41:00 The art of stewarding creative tension and the gift of discomfort
42:29 Redefining my world beyond an infertility diagnosis //
46:20 Resource Nugget: Loving What Is by Byron Katie 4 Questions to get you out of your own head and accepting hard moments in life.
47:47 When you get into your head and masculine energy, and it's draining you - what do you do to soften, recharge and connect with pleasure on a practical level?
50:51 If you could offer advice to 10-years-younger Maren, what would you tell her?
54:38 What do you wish someone would have given you permission to do a decade ago?
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