Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in candle-making but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Amy C. Wilson, Owner of Other Worldly Waxes, located in Beacon, NY, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
Creating Candle Magick for over 30 years, Other Worldly Waxes specializes in ritually charged and adorned candles, hand-blended magickal oils, and powdered incenses. Located in Beacon, New York, this magickal shop creates its own blends from a formulary handed down for generations. Featuring hundreds of oils and incenses, you'll always find what you need from this Hudson Valley gem!
Tell us about yourself
I am a celebrated Spiritual Medium, Psychometrist, and practitioner of the Magickal Arts. Also a teacher of Witchcraft, gifted healer, psychic reader, and long-time Witch. I have contributed my impressions in missing person cases using my Energy Work.
I have worked in various New York City occult stores for over 25 years, specializing in healing others through Candle Magick. I am presently the proprietress of Other Worldly Waxes, an online and brick-and-mortar magickal apothecary located in Beacon, New York, that features magickal oils and incenses for spell-work and custom-dressed and ritually charged spell candles for both online customers and private clientele.
Highly knowledgeable on myriad occult and mystical topics, I am a gifted teacher of the Magickal Arts and Witchcraft. I regularly hold live classes at my apothecary and lectures at local venues on topics such as Magick, Energy Work, and the Spirit Realm. Most recently, I had the privilege of serving as a guest lecturer at the Omega Institute of Rhinebeck, New York.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
One of the biggest accomplishments as a business owner is navigating today's technology. Taking a physical store and transforming it into an online shop that ships and works with clients worldwide have been an adventure in learning that creates new and wonderful connections.
What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?
While running a business can be rewarding, long hours, drive and motivation can be daunting at times. This, coupled with trying to balance personal, family, and the day-to-day, requires a lot of mental, physical, and emotional stamina. Asking for help and delegating work as also been a challenge.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Three tips I can offer for any new or seasoned entrepreneur is to trust your dream. Second is everything takes time, don't compare your success to others; everyone has a different set of tools (e.g., finances, time, resources, etc.) to work with. Third, quality over quantity. Focus on your product and/or services and provide the best you can.
Is there anything else you'd like to share?
When your business comes from your heart and soul, you can not fail; you can only evolve.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.otherworldlywaxes.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/otherwordlywaxesandwhatever
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otherworldlywaxes/
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