Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in personal development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Julian Crosson-Hill, owner of Priest of Inanna, LLC., located in Fairborn, OH, USA.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

I am a certified spiritual life coach & human design specialist. My customers are people who feel a spiritual calling and need help figuring out how to best answer that calling. For some, it involves making a career change and stepping into new work, and overcoming the fears and blocks associated with making such a big shift. For others, it involves starting their own business as a soulpreneur and figuring out how to run a business from a spiritual perspective.

Through this work, I empower people to become powerful catalysts for change in the world. The people who answer this spiritual calling are creating powerful shifts around them that will lead to a world of more love, joy, peace, and shared prosperity.

Tell us about yourself

I started my career as a fine arts major at the University of New Mexico and became a software engineer and then a software engineering leader through web design. About five years ago, I felt a spiritual calling and got certified as a yoga instructor, which is when I started my business. I discussed coaching and shifted into my current work.

What motivates me each day is that I know that all of the problems in this world can be solved when one person vibrates in more expansive energy. It inspires another and then another who inspires another until we live in a world that has been transformed by individual people choosing to create change.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

This year, my biggest accomplishment was having worked as a coach hard enough to qualify for a certification from the International Coaching Federation. I'm now an associate-certified coach through ICF. Beyond that, I've helped several clients find more fulfillment in their lives, so every time someone sends me a message or a comment to say that I've inspired them to be better or expect better, I feel that I've accomplished something.

What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?

Resisting the urge to compare myself to other business owners. My path is my own, and I need to figure out my authentic approach to it and find my own voice. There's a lot of temptation to copy other successful people or compare my results to theirs. I also get solicited frequently by people that think they know how I should do things.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

  1. Learn about your human design and how it can help you stay true to your authentic being.
  2. Don't compare yourself to others or try to be someone else. Your people will recognize it when you're being true and be drawn to you.
  3. Have fun. If you're not taking time to rest and enjoy life, you've missed the point.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

I also have two spirituality-focused podcasts — Answer your unique calling, which is focused on my work helping people embrace their spiritual calling, and Queer Spirituality: The Podcast, which is dedicated to LGBTQ+ spirituality and living.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://www.priestofinanna.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/priestofinanna
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/priestofinanna/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcrossonhill/

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