When the word ‘work’ comes up in conversation, our first thought is not typically to immediately feel joy. Laura brings a new way of thinking to the table with her Center for Joyful Business. With a focus on the ripple effects that joy can bring, she develops creative coaching and marketing strategies that are tailored to her client’s values and gifts to generate successful and long-lasting change.
This is no ordinary fire pit; instead, it’s more like a fire amphitheater. It has been affectionately dubbed a Soul Fire by one of our community members, Barry Richmond. Barry envisioned a sacred space where we could gather to sing songs, play drums or sit under the stars and listen quietly to the crackling fire.
Everything is connected, even you and me, on a collective global level. What I do affects you and what you do affects me. We constantly put ripples into the Universe and those ripples — good or bad, positive or negative — affect all those around us…
I grew up in a house full of stones and crystals. My mom was always collecting them and I remember at a very young age traveling to Franklin, North Carolina, to attend the gem shows that still occur today. I didn’t really know that much about them, other than they were all unique in their shape and color.
I have never knew there was so much power in the feet up until a few years ago when I had my first reflexology experience with our community member and Reflexologist, Carrie Wagner.
Growing up as a natural athlete, I learned at a very young age how important it was to move my body. That realization has followed me through my life to this day. In my thirties, I was a personal trainer assisting individuals and educating them on the importance of movement and how our minds and bodies are connected.