Awakened Living: A Story of Healing, Self-Discovery, and Pivoting in Business

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Roseanna Croft, where she talks openly about her forced spiritual awakening, by way of cancer diagnosis, and her journey through to remission. Roseanna is a Jungian Life Coach and meditation master who helps women create a life they truly love living, in alignment with their truth. Her passion for spirituality and self-discovery helped her completely turn her life around and she now helps many others do the same. Roseanna is also an author, speaker and YouTuber on the topics of spiritual growth and personal development. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST Roseanna's journey from cancer diagnosis to being cancer free The importance of getting aligned with your version of success The alignment between your goals and your likelihood of achieving them Disclaimer: neither Teresa or Roseanna are experts in cancer or treatment for disease and illness and this episode is not intended to advise anyone on how to treat their own cancer or diagnose an illness. This is purely an account of Roseanna's personal experience including some spiritual and some scientific backed practices that she used throughout her journey. If you are facing your own cancer journey then please do speak to medical professionals and conduct your own thorough research, and choose what is right for you. LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Roseanna on Instagram Find Roseanna on YouTube Listen to Teresa's episode on Roseanna's podcast, The Mandala Effect Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook   Transcript Teresa: Welcome to the Your Dream Business Podcast. I'm your host, Teresa Heath Wareing. An international bestselling author, award winning speaker, TEDx speaker, certified coach, and the host of this number one ranked podcast. I am so excited to guide you on the journey of creating a business and life that you not only love, but one that perfectly aligns with you and the season of life that you're in. In each episode I'll share with you easy, actionable, and insightful strategies to grow your online business. Plus we'll be diving into some mindset tools and strategies that keep you focused, motivated, and are going to stop you from getting in your own way. So if you're a course creator, membership owner, or coach, you are in the right place. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Your Dream Business podcast. And as always, I'm your host Teresa Heath-Wareing. How the Devil Are You Doing? So this week we have an interview and I'm very excited about this interview because I'm having so much fun actually with these interviews because I'm just interviewing people I know and love, which is ace. And it was almost like when I first started the podcast or when I go back all that time ago and think about who I interviewed then it was like, It was almost my ego going and actually this is a perfect thing to talk about today, given who I've got on, but it was almost my ego going, you should have this person or you should have this person and that almost, and I'm not, I think I wasn't even open to the idea of actually interviewing people that I know and love because I was too busy thinking, oh, I need this type of person or I need this type of person. So when I bought the interviews back at the kind of end of last year. I just bought them back with like, I'm going to do this person. I'd love to chat to this person. I'd love to chat to that. And I think as time goes on as listener of this podcast, you will start to see some interviews that might be a bit different to the some of stuff we've done just because I find stuff fascinating. So anyway, today I have the very amazing Roseanna Croft on the podcast. Roseanna is a Jung, I think that's like, that is Jung. Thanks. Okay, . So this is how bad I am at intro people. Do you know, so she's a young life coach and meditation master who helps 'em create a life that they truly love living in alignment with their truth. So I'm gonna, that's all I'm gonna do about a bio. 'cause her story is part of what we're gonna talk about and that's what I would read. But the young word is written funny, just in case you're thinking she can't read the word young. It's written. J-U-N-G-I -A-N because it's Carl Jung. Roseanna: Carl Jung yeah. Yeah. Teresa: Yeah. So anyway, welcome to the podcast, Roseanna Croft. Welcome. Roseanna: Thank you so much for having me. This is exciting. Teresa: I'm excited because your story is kind of amazing. I want to just start by how we met. How many years ago do you reckon now? Five. Gotta be. Roseanna: Got to be. Teresa: Easily. So we met at a membership meetup. So it was, we were both in a female entrepreneur association and they had a Christmas meetup and we met and then just became friends ever since. And then obviously the pandemic stopped us seeing each other in person. And then your life took a real turn. And then we managed to get back on track, which is amazing. Cause I'm so grateful. That's the short version. Now let's dive into the long version. So let's start by saying, I want us to go right back. Actually. Normally I go, you know, who are you and how you got to how you are today, but let's start. So when I first met you, you were Roseanna Croft Jewelry. Roseanna: Yes. Teresa: Tell us about that business. Roseanna: Okay, cool. So, when we met, I was the owner of Roseanna Croft Jewelry, which was a fine jewelry company, and I would design bespoke engagement rings, and I would redesign heirlooms, and I did it all from my shop in rural Derbyshire. And I had a workshop and I was seeing private clients and it was amazing. And I was building this business that was at the time deeply ingrained in my heart. It was my passion and, and I loved it. And I was going to take over the world. I was going to rival Cartier and Tiffany and I had all of these incredible dreams and I was creating collections to help women fall in love with themselves. And I was. Teresa: Yes, I remember. Roseanna: I had all of these amazing dreams and plans. And then we had the pandemic and I closed the shop and I moved to London and I pivoted. So as everybody had to in the pandemic, I pivoted to offer solely online. But then I would see private clients in London as well. So I kind of, in a way, even though I closed the bricks and mortar store, I expanded, or that's what my ego told me I was doing. Teresa: It's a bit funny, this stuff that we're like, Oh, this is what this means. Roseanna: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Teresa: Let's just go with that. Roseanna: Well, as you were saying about your podcast, I was like, yeah, that's what, that's what I did, I need these names up, but yeah, so then I moved to London and, in a pandemic and, and my business was the most successful it had ever been. I was attracting clients all over the world. Yeah, just really living my dream in one sense and in another sense I didn't stop to smell the roses. I was extremely anxious, very stressed and deeply unhappy, which at the time I probably didn't realize. Teresa: And also at the time Your brand and your business fitted perfectly with how Roseanna showed up. Like, champagne, VIP, fine life, like, it all fits perfectly. Roseanna: Only the best, darling. Teresa: Yeah, well, aren't we both? But like, and it fitted that. And it almost like And obviously we'll get to the transformation, we'll get to like where we are today, but it's almost like they are two ends of a spectrum. Like we started off luxury, fine jewelry, expensive stuff, like I said, you know, private clients, drinking champagne, going to the best hotels, meeting the fanciest people. And on the surface that looks like everything that everybody wants, but you weren't happy. Roseanna: No, no, I wasn't happy because I was always chasing more and always chasing what other people told me would make, would like society tells you will make you happy. Because when I started my business, I was 24. So I opened my shop when I was 24 years old. Teresa: Which quite honestly, but. Roseanna: I had no idea what goal was. I, I just wanted to open a shop and I just, I was so naive and innocent and I just wanted to open a shop and I wanted to have this, I wanted to recreate the job that I had when I was living in Australia. We had amazing clients. We sold amazing jewelry and I wanted to make that for myself back in the UK. And then I learned what goals were. And then I learned that like joined...