Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Ailsa Keppie, Founder of Pleasure For Health, located in Hortonville, NS, Canada.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
I am a Somatic Sex Educator and Relationship Coach, and I work with people who want to learn relationship and intimacy skills.
Tell us about yourself
I am the creator of Pleasure for Health. I come to this work with a diverse background in body awareness therapies, energy work, physical theatre, and training in sexuality and trauma release. Having lived in different cultures, I have immersed myself in various spiritual traditions, raised four beautiful daughters, and founded several successful business ventures. I bring a compassionate, non-judgmental attitude to all my relationships and to every client or group session. I welcome each opportunity to learn new things and am open to new experiences that expand my understanding of what it is to be human.
As people, we need a way of integrating all aspects of our body, mind, and spirit. With the Pleasure for Health brand, we include the land we live on, the food we eat, and our relationship to our body and to others, including our sexuality, to embrace our innate wholeness. As human beings, we have a need for touch, connection, and intimacy that goes beyond the superficial material constructs of today's western culture. Covering aspects of embodied ethics, integrative views on transforming the patriarchal power structure inherent in our world, and using pleasure and the power of choice and voice, we can help to guide you in recreating a life you are in love with.
We incorporate our body's wisdom, re-calibrate our nervous system, and engage our soul and spirit in our healing. It can be especially effective for trauma recovery, reconnection with our true self, and expanding the possibilities for desire, joy, and ecstasy to be more present in our everyday experience.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
I built and now run a wellness center along with my life partner and my parents on our jointly-owned farmland in rural Nova Scotia. Our Celtic Hearth was borne of an idea for the community and healthy living. We are rooted in family, with branches extending to locals as well as people from away.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
It is challenging to see to the running and maintenance of our center along with creating most of the programming and leading classes and workshops onsite. It sometimes feels like there just aren't enough hours in the day!
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Do something you love to do - even if you aren't getting paid for it- because you will be doing this thing a lot!
- Get help with the things that aren't in your wheelhouse - for me, that was tech and website stuff.
- Cultivate great boundaries and make time for enjoying your life as an entrepreneur.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://pleasureforhealth.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pleaureforhealthyrelationships/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pleasureforhealth/
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