Jul 6

Jul 6 Episode #16 with Sora Schilling: from the fashion industry & teaching to transformative business coach

Welcome to episode #16 of the Career Pivot Podcast, hosted by Bec Sands. This episode is available on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes and Google Podcasts, and if you enjoy it, I would love it if you could please subscribe and leave me a review.

In today’s podcast episode, I interview Sora Schilling, who is a sacred space holder, strategy alchemist, transformative business coach, corporate leadership consultant, producer of Sora TV and the Sacred Business Podcast, a co-producer of Priestess TV and author of the Stay Sacred Journal. Sora also created the Priestess Temple school with Julie Parker. Sora works with sovereign spiritual folks to incorporate the art of feeling sacred into their businesses through earth-based practices. Sora began her career in the fashion industry as a merchandiser and buyer before pivoting many times, travelling, becoming a teacher, and more.

Sora loves to help people embrace their medicine while sitting in ceremony. She leads highly intuitive individuals and groups through powerful experiences in her mastermind, on retreats, and from the stage. Sora blends real-world experience with mystical transformation, ritualistic practices, inner reflection, conscious communication, and innovative circle work to help luminaries create great impact within their communities.

Show Notes

1:32 Sora’s career journey and the catalyst that made her want to pivot

2:30 Where Sora’s career started out, her multiple pivots and how it led her to life coaching

4:58 How Sora became the professional and and entrepreneur she is today, and how being present and open and listening to our own intuition is so important for choosing our path

6:30 How removing others’ expectations enabled Sora to give herself permission to pivot her career

8:00 Why pushing and controlling feels harder than making space for your path and being in flow, and what you can do instead

8:48 Why feeling awful in a role, feeling unworthy or being bullied in a role can take you to a place of sadness, frustration and deep anger and how to start moving through this to a place of peace and gratitude and moving forward towards your career pivot from there

10:00 How placing yourself as a victim does NOT give you the opportunity to make sovereign choices

11:30 Some of the biggest challenges Sora faced in her career pivot into her own business, and how she moved forward from them

13:06 How by dreaming and leaning into what she deemed the ‘impossible’ - being location independent, travelling, coaching - she started attaining these goals in interesting ways

13:50 How feeling safe in a transition role enabled Sora to explore being in business for herself

14:00 The one thing Sora needed to fully embrace when she stepped into her own business

15:00 What being an entrepeneur is about for Sora & her one piece of advice for anyone going from a career into a business

16:30 Sora’s mindset practices and how she has worked on her mindset

19:00 Sora’s top three recommendations for someone who may be in a job they’re not aligned with or enjoying, and the next steps they can take

23:00 What to do when feeling comfortable in an uncomfortable state, or being attached to feeling sad or angry all the time because it starts feeling like the most comfortable state to be in

25:30 The next steps to take if you’re putting off your career pivot but you know you want to make changes

27:00 One book that has made a massive impact for Sora in relation to pursuing her passion and her career

Additional links:

Website: www.devotedway.com

Instagram: @soraschilling

📸 Image: @kathybeaverphotography

Further resources:

Books

Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way