Stepping Off The Game of Life and Unearthing The Witch Within with Alaina Crystal

You have done everything right. The impressive job, the serious career, the identity built around being the person who gets things done. And somewhere along the way, the parts of you that were creative, curious, maybe even a little bit magic, got quietly filed away under things other people get to do. In this episode, you'll get to hear from someone who was global head of strategy at an advertising agency, deeply embedded in the grind, and who has spent the last five years methodically, sometimes terrifyingly, stepping off what she calls the game of life path. Brand strategist, coach, hiking nonprofit founder, podcaster and self-described baby witch Alaina Crystal talks with Lucy about what it actually costs to build your entire identity around productivity, what opens up when you stop, and why the creative wellspring so many high-achieving women have buried doesn't disappear, it just waits. You'll hear about the relationship between spirituality and creativity, and why feeding your soul work first tends to make everything else better. You'll hear an honest conversation about what it means to want to work less hard, why that is one of the most radical and difficult things a woman in a big career can allow herself to say, and what has to shift inside you before it becomes possible to mean it. And at the end of the episode, Alaina pulls tarot for Lucy live on the podcast, which is exactly as electric as it sounds. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve The Coven in the Corner Office on Substack Listen to S1 of the podcast on Apple or Spotify Sign up to the Girl Hike newsletter for our latest hikes.