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From the moment a child is old enough to sit in a classroom until the day they graduate college, they are constantly being taught to accept that success in life is solely dependent on financial wealth accumulation. While being broke is not a desirable state of living, having money should be considered just one part of actual wealth, according to the holistic wealth school of thought.
This concept emphasizes the need for wealth in every part of a person’s life including the financial, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects, and also the abundance of time and happy relationships. So many people work extremely hard to be financially buoyant but are fully impoverished in every other aspect of life. It’s a completely unbalanced lifestyle to spend 12-14 hours a day hustling and be left with no time for your kids, partner, and family. Exercise, self-care, meditation, worship, and a proper diet are luxuries too many people cannot find the time for.
As Leah Steele explains, the situation is nearly twice as worse for the female gender. The whole “career woman” struggle leaves so many women eager to climb the rungs of professional success but without the time to focus on other important areas of life. No woman needs to go through life with the limited mental precept that she must stuff all her energy into a single stream of income and be grateful while her life moves down the society-dictated trajectory.
“We don’t have wealth unless we have it across all areas of our life,” Steele says. “I feel as though it’s my purpose on this planet to help people wake up. To help you realize that you are the most powerful creator in your reality, and you are more than capable of creating what you deeply desire.”
Steele, a holistic wealth strategist and thought leader, is the founder and CEO of The Leah Steele Brand, an online holistic wealth coaching community with a mission to “to inspire, guide and empower millions of women to rediscover their soul’s purpose and step fully into wildly profitable purpose work”. Steele believes in the divinity and sovereignty of the human soul that enables the body and mind to achieve milestones beyond our wildest imaginations. The only catch – you have to believe that you are capable of anything.
“You already hold all the power,” she says. “Through connection to your infinite divine immortal soul, all you need to do is to set your intention and speak it into existence. Follow the guidance you receive from The Universe and cultivate a connection with the highest version of yourself.”
Inspired by personal experiences
Steele hadn’t always been so conscious of her all-round wealth and general wellbeing. In fact, her experiences with the lack of fulfillment in other areas of her life, despite having two successful businesses, were the major motivation for the inception of The Leah Steele Brand.
Steele is an only child and was raised by a single mother who had to study and work incredibly hard to provide for her child. While she appreciates her mother’s remarkable efforts, she always knew she didn’t want the same lifestyle for herself.
“My mother always told me that I was capable of achieving great things,” Steele recalls. “And when you hear something enough on repeat, it sinks into your subconscious mind. I became an avid reader from a very early age and quickly took an interest in money.”
She was so passionate about financial independence that she landed her first retail job at the age of 13, and onward, she never had fewer than two jobs at any time. Steele later went to college to study International Business and Asian Studies and at the age of 19, she left Utah to seek greener pastures in New York.
“The experience was a series of incredible opportunities for me,” she says of her time in New York. “I began to work for the largest newspaper syndicate and quickly got assigned to their top two clients. Things progressed further, and I later got a job in sports marketing working for FIFA on the 1999 Women’s Cup – the largest women’s sporting event in the world.”
Normally, most people would be motivated to continue climbing the career ladder in the corporate world of sports, but these experiences had the exact opposite effect on Steele. All she could think about was delving into entrepreneurship, and of course, she took a chance on herself.
Behind every dark cloud…
Steele eventually returned to Utah to start a business. She started a sober living facility for addiction treatment with her mother, and it eventually became the family business. She also partnered with her husband to create an outpatient program, and while both businesses thrived for eight years, Steele was entirely unfulfilled with the rest of her life.
“I was living the ‘country club’ life: my kids were in private school, I had a house on the hill, and everything on the outside appeared perfect,” she recalled. “I had everything that was supposed to give me happiness. But on the inside, I was breaking down. I was miserable. My marriage was on the verge of divorce, and my relationship with my kids was strained because I had no time to spend with them.”
Steele was so close to tipping over mentally when she finally questioned herself – is this how her life should turn out after so many years of giving so much? There had to be more she could reach for. At this point, her spiritual transformation was ignited and it spurred her onto another journey through life where she would prioritize her happiness and all-round wellness.
“My spiritual gifts began to flood back in full force as I quickly realized that I was not living my purpose,” she said. Then, that realization manifested the ultimate demise of my multi-million dollar company. Over the next 12 months, both of the companies I directed dissolved. We lost 3 million dollars, my house, my car, and we were over 1 million dollars in debt.”
Losing her business was a dark period in her life, but the silver lining came in the manifestation of her coaching business, a venture that has allowed her to discover her true purpose in life while building holistic wealth for herself and her family.
Now based in Bali, Indonesia, with her husband and children, Steele runs a community of emancipated women working to deconstruct the social norms that limit true wealth consciousness. Staying ahead of wealth creation in every aspect of one’s life starts with questioning those values you have been fed from childhood and engaging in a continuous process of overwriting them.
“I listened to things that inspired me on repeat,” Leah says as she describes a part of the daily wealth consciousness practices she adopted early on in her journey. “I read them over and over. I knew that the power of both repetition and accessibility could help others reach states of overflow and call prosperity into their lives. That’s why I provide my community with daily content that keeps them questioning their beliefs and committed to manifesting an abundant, prosperous life.”
Alongside helping women step into a fresh zone of renewed thinking, Steele also runs The Wealth Witch Podcast, offering “insight, advice, and practical tools to help people ready to deconstruct their wealth programming and reclaim their financial destinies.” Her upcoming book, The Wealth Wisdom Oracle, will also join her arsenal of reprogramming tools as the 365-page mantra treasure that provides unique affirmations on wealth consciousness for every day of the year.
