Let’s face it; if you’ve cultivated any kind of success in the business world, it’s not because you’re doing the bare minimum. On the contrary, chances are you’re already a go-getter, a leader, and an innovator, or else you wouldn’t be where you are. And being a successful entrepreneur requires a drive and passion that comes from the deepest depths of your soul. However, along with success comes a lot of hard work and burnout, which can knock you off your game both physically and mentally. That’s why spending time nurturing your mind and body is super important.

The Relationship Between Self-Care and Entrepreneurship

Whether you are aware of the relationship between self-care and entrepreneurship or not, there is an undeniable connection between the two. When asked about the relationship between self-care and entrepreneurs, Bobbi Vargas had this to say:

As an entrepreneur, you often spend long hours working in pursuit of your business vision, which can take an emotional and physical toll.  Without taking careful measures to practice self-care and maintain good health, stress can overwhelm you and disrupt your focus. Effective self-care can help entrepreneurs make decisions more clearly, reduce their risk of burnout, ease their stress levels, boost their energy and productivity, and ensure they remain motivated to keep them in a state of flow. When entrepreneurs prioritize self-care, they can gain clarity and insight into their goals and make progress toward achieving success.

Bobbi would know, as she’s been teaching entrepreneurs the secrets of success for years. According to her, health and wellness play a central role in every entrepreneur’s story. It takes an incredible amount of energy to be extraordinary, which means your body needs to be up for the task.

Bobbi began her own journey as a make-up artist for stars like Christina Aguilera and Jay Leno until she was recruited first by Versace, then by the houses of Christian Dior, Valentino, and Dolce and Gabbana before ending up in the House of Chanel as the lead sales trainer. Bobbi would go on to help lead multiple companies to financial success. Today, she continues to consult and speak on leadership, sales, and entrepreneurship, along with growing her wellness brand, Bodela.    

Much of Bobbi’s success can be attributed to a good attitude and knowing when it’s time for a bit of R&R. But do you?

If you are experiencing any of these burnout symptoms, you may need to rev up your self-care game:

• Lack of creativity
• Fatigue
• Reduced productivity
• Anxiety
• Difficulty concentrating
• Headaches
• Change in appetite or weight
• Negative attitudes to coworkers or family
• Difficulty sleeping

Everyone gets burned out at one point or another. If you’re a hard-working entrepreneur with signs of burnout, you can do a few things. First, become attuned with your body and learn to heed the warning signs. What’s your body telling you? Are you yawning? Then you’re tired and should get some sleep. Is your brain sluggish? Take a walk and recharge your batteries. A spa day, massage, or facial may even be in order.

You also want to ensure you’re getting adequate amounts of sleep. Sleep is crucial for bodily functions like focus and memory. Not to mention, lack of sleep makes you age faster too. Without enough sleep, you’ll always feel like you’re burning the candle at both ends. 

In all you do, remember how important it is to pivot back to yourself from time to time so that when you need to, you can be on top of your game and ready to handle whatever life throws at you.

We would all like our world to become a better place for everyone. However, it’s easier said than done. Hence, the need of the hour is to develop practical ways that can genuinely contribute to impacting societies’ most vulnerable. Durell Coleman, Founder and CEO of DC Design, offers three practical ways to do so.

Engage With Those Who Empathize

It’s a rather pitiful state of affairs when the general sense of social change is associated with sympathy. It seems to be the right response to suffering. We pity, sympathize, and move on, having contended ourselves with paying our due through an emotional currency. However, sympathizers don’t make an effective social impact; empathizers do.

As a social impact design firm, DC Design’s cross-disciplinary team is able to make a real social impact, having first been affected by its harsh realities themselves. Coleman, for instance, watched his older brother pass away fighting a rare form of cancer while the world outside went on unchanged. His experience drives his work; he says, “my yardstick for measuring social change is simple – who are the people dealing with some of the biggest health and wellbeing challenges? Are we making life easier for them? Are we creating things that are improving outcomes for them? That’s part of how I measure it or how I focus on it and our work. We think about the people who are not being served.”

Develop Well-Directed Solutions

There are plenty of good-hearted organizations in the world. It may sound oxymoronic, but that doesn’t make it untrue. Durell has worked with organizations that he considers “incredible change-makers.” For him, all that a well-meaning organization needs and often lacks is “good direction,” whether it’s deciding “where to go next” and/or “how to cater their services and programs to best meet the needs of those they serve.”

Coleman understands the complexity of social issues and how they divide people’s opinions and turn the approach into a labyrinth of disjointed ideas. DC Design’s Human-Centered Design process, also known as Design Thinking, helps clients develop a coherent framework that incorporates different perspectives and skill sets to reach a well-rounded solution.

Move With The Times

We’re living in the age of technology. Golden for some, and not quite so for others. Yet, it’s one of the best chances we’ve had in centuries to make the world a better place for everyone in it. In short, technology can pave the way for social change. 

When human concern and technology come together, we get wheelchair ramps in hospitals, better helplines, and apps that allow those in need to get the help they need in time. Through his DC Design University, Coleman and team have created a flagship program called Design the Future, “where we teach high school kids how to design apps and products for people with disabilities,” he says. “They’ve solved problems that people have been living with for 20 years. These are 15-year-olds and 16-year-olds doing this in a week or two weeks, and they do it repeatedly.”

Social change can be brought about with innovative thinking in a direction that will bring collective benefit to the community. If you’re working on a systemic social change initiative or just want personal guidance on how you can change the world, reach out to DC Design for help. 

Moon Maison, Founder of Moon Maison Media LLC, also known as The World’s Sexiest Life Coach is an authority on sex, spiritual healing, and personal development.

As a Life Coach, Model, and Influencer she has amassed an audience of over 600k followers who come to her for coaching on all aspects of life, namely, sex and the entanglement of the act within relationships. 

Moon has developed multiple avenues of content on various platforms for her followers, to aid in spiritual wellness, and guide them on the subjects of sex and love. 

Moon’s overall feats would make a fellow influencer wince with pangs of jealousy. From starting a successful clothing brand in NYC and selling the brand at a young age – to being featured in magazines like, Sports Illustrated, Maxim, and Playboy – Moon’s resume is an alluring run-down of slam-dunks peppered with twists and turns to keep you guessing. 

She dislikes being boxed in or labeled, so Moon keeps it interesting, a traveling wilbury that is always in motion. 

“When I closed my clothing boutique in NYC and moved to Miami…I took my first yoga teacher training. It was then when I really began to meditate properly.”

Indeed, the self-described, Sex Goddess also has an intensely spiritual side that sent her traveling the world. She turned to soul work, studied, and became certified in practices like; Yoga, Intuitive Healing, Tantra, Hypnotherapy, and Energetic Bodywork. 

“I found so much peace and clarity in meditation. I instantly knew how to run my energy and it really felt ecstatic for me.”

It wasn’t until Moon received visions through plant medicine that things really clicked into place.

Moon started out initially as many do, perplexed and looking for a thread in the blanket of life. For whatever reason, she was led into the modeling world after being encouraged by friends to hop onto OnlyFans. She didn’t know what to expect, but leaned into it with an open mind.

She was creating content on OnlyFans, not wholly realizing the power of the brand she was forming, and when she became in-demand…she says, “it just sort of took off” – shocking her. It wasn’t something she expected to happen. 

Sexual themes in content and on platforms is nothing new, but the usage of nudity and sexuality can be a springboard that catapults careers and faces into notoriety. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton have famously subscribed to this method. It can be a controversial path but empowering all the same when it leads to financial self-sufficiency and the means to explore true passions. 

“My dad got Playboy magazines in the mail, we would go to ‘best body on the beach contests’, and I saw my mom naked a lot, so I just always saw it as normal.”

Moon used her sexual artistry, blossoming within the niche, comfortable with flaunting it. 

She was making money and gathering followers like daisies. 

But her entrepreneurial spirit had other ideas and felt that something was missing. Moon wanted to make more of an impact on her followers by offering services like Wellness Coaching. 

It took a hefty investment in personal development, meditation, and self-reflection to integrate her findings. By satiating her thirst for purpose, she was able to position herself as a Goddess of many hats. 

Moon describes a turning point, where she had a spiritual awakening that solidified her course. 

During her second Ayahuasca ceremony, Moon says she “downloaded visions” that came from God, or Source. She was told that she was “a Love Goddess, a Sex Goddess, and a Healer” by the entity speaking through the medicinal plant as a sound-piece. It guided her toward embracing spiritual sexuality as a life path. 

“I was told that I wasn’t ready to know this information before, that I am ready now and to prepare for something big to happen”.

 Her spiritual ascent had hit an all-time…climax. 

The goal then was to take it to the masses and make an impact in a different way. 

“The spiritual side takes more effort for people to understand as it’s more about changing how people view sex and love.”

By owning it, and the moniker, Goddess, she uses meditation, energy and vibrations. She aims to change how sex is viewed by using these energy tools. 

Sex Magic, Mindset, and Tantra are her go-to methods, especially the former which is central to exercising sexual energy and consists of rituals centered around self-love. 

She aligns with the universe to expand her mind, “changing your frequency, heightening your awareness, you feel the love vibration and sexual energy that is all around.”

The Love Goddess has been able to merge her separate paths in both modeling, and spirituality to offer a unique package that has taken off, solidifying her place as a Life Coach. 

She does the full gamut: one-on-one life coaching, bi-weekly virtual gatherings, free online meditation courses. And has much more in the works; music, events, online courses, and a product line.

With her work in-demand and followers taking notice; “I’ve had one-on-ones with C-Level executives” – she notes how people are opening up, wanting guidance to align themselves spiritually. 

The model turned Goddess of Love and Sex hasn’t always known precisely where her path was leading, but every piece of her story has been central to the plot.  

The World’s Sexiest Life Coach has put in the work and made her mark, and now she’s riding high on her sexy Goddess throne.