The Vixen Vision: April Roberts on Empowering Women Through Feminine Energy

Discover the key to a more abundant, loving, and aligned life with April Roberts, founder of the Vixen Gathering. Join us as we explore the transformative power of embracing your feminine energy, revealing how it can revolutionize your relationships, career, and self-worth. Find out how to embrace your Vixen energy to elevate all aspects of your life. Show Notes | Transcript "So many of us are missing out because we're blocking the receiving. I was guilty of this. I had this huge a-ha a few years ago and I would do a daily meditation to imagine receiving so that I could retrain myself." - April Roberts April Roberts shares the value of tapping into your feminine wisdom in today’s episode. She is intimately familiar with this topic because she helps Gen X women do just that in her transformative coaching practice. A former high-achieving attorney and financial advisor, April developed the five pillars of Vixen to help her clients harness their unique energies for work-life harmony. In this episode, you will learn: The significance of aligning with one's true passions and desires for a fulfilling life The five pillars of Vixen and their role in achieving balance Practical advice for transitioning energy between professional and personal roles The importance of self-awareness and intentional breaks for energy management The necessity of playing within one's business to foster creativity and prevent burnout Emphasizing the balance of giving and receiving in feminine energy Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network Connect with April Roberts: Website: VixenGathering.com YouTube: @VixenGathering Facebook group: Abundant Business Women Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: TRANSCRIPT Gloria "Grace" Rand Namaste, so glad to have you with us today. And if you are one of my wonderful women viewer woman women viewers yeah sorry. You may feel a lot of pressure to succeed, you know, both in your personal life and your professional life and that often leads to a lot of stress, anxiety and burnout. And today's guest understands that because she has. She's lived that. She's been a high achieving former attorney and financial advisor and now she helps Gen X women achieve more abundance, love, spirituality and alignment by connecting with their femininity femininity. I hope I can speak today. I apologize, I'm tripping up on my words today, but before we bring on the lovely April Roberts, I do want to officially welcome you to the podcast, especially if this is your first time. I am Gloria "Grace and I do a little bit of a similar work to April and that I help female entrepreneurs really strengthen the connection to their inner wisdom so that you can create a life and business that is prosperous and deeply gratifying. And since I know we have sort of similar, similar mission, shall we say, I'm looking forward to having this discussion and I hope you are too. So, without further ado, I'm going to bring April Roberts on to the show. Welcome, April. April Roberts Hi, I'm so excited to be here and I agree I loved when I was, when I was reading about you checking out the work you do. I feel we're very aligned, so I'm super excited for today. Gloria "Grace" Rand Yeah, absolutely. Well, I I love finding out about our guests and about their story, and I've done a little research on you and I know that you've been you've been doing this work for this type of work for a few years, but you've got, of course, this rich background. I mentioned that you've been an attorney and a financial financial advisor, so I'd love to have you share with our audience a little bit about you know what, what got you into doing the work that you're doing today? April Roberts Awesome. I like to joke that I'm on my fourth career, which is the truth. I mean potentially fifth. I'll share that with you. But yeah, I remember, you know I. I think a lot of us can relate. I'm 47 and you know I'm I'm a Gen Xer and so many of us had parents that worked really hard to get where they were. Many of us were among one of the first generations in our family to go to college. In fact, you know my dad was the first person in our family to graduate from college. My mom went with him but she didn't actually graduate. And so you know, when I was going off to college, I was always a high achiever, like I was the nerdy kid who was like studying for the SAT on Saturday and the ACT. I thought it was fun to take practice exams, which, interestingly, I was extremely social as well. So I'll share that with you when we get get along. But you know, I really just thought, oh, you go to the best college you can. And so you know, I made it my job applying for colleges and then I went to Vanderbilt University and I got there. My parents are like, where do you get a major in? And I was like oh, english, you know, I think it'd be fun to be an English teacher or a writer. And my parents were like we're not paying $50,000 a year for you to go to college. You can come home to Mississippi and go to college, you know, if that's what you want to do. So I and my parents had my best interest at heart. They weren't trying to do anything bad to me, but that was the way they thought. Right, you come out with a good job that pays you well. And even though my parents were entrepreneurs and my grand parents, I mean it was still in very practical professions. And so I really kind of decided oh well, what do I want to do? Well, with my degree, I can go to law school, which made my parents very happy. And because I was a really good at test taker, I got into Notre Dame Law School and you know I thought, well, I'll be a litigator, because I love talking, whatever they were top 10 litigation. They had a program in London. Honestly, that's why I went there, because I wanted to go live in London for a year, if truth be told, and I was like, oh, that's cool. Um, and so, you know, I kind of found myself in law school and Grace, I actually remember the end of the first year going, oh my gosh, if I crammed all this in my head like I'm going to do something with it right. So I don't even want to say that I chose my path into the legal career. It kind of it wasn't the path chosen for me, but it was like the practical choice and I don't think I would have made the practical choice left to my own devices. So you know, fast forward, I get out, I end up working somehow for the most prestigious firm in Atlanta. Like I make a lot of jokes about how I got that job because I was not law review. You know I very much enjoyed my time in law school as I meant it was very social. So I ended up at the law firm and again, I love the social aspect of working there. We were very connected. I got to go to the Braves games, I got to go to the Hawks games, I got to go to events and so I thought, oh, my life is cool, forgetting that I was working 80 hours a week right and grinding it out when I wasn't doing these fun things which, by the way, at 25, you can do all of that Today, at 47, I don't think I could. So it's kind of a long story. Hop in any time you want and interrupt me. But what happened for me is I fell in love and I fell in love with my ex-husband, who was Italian, and he moved to the United States to be with me and suddenly, when there's someone else being affected by your 80 hour weeks and although life is great and I'm getting to, you know, flit around and I'm making lots of money. it really changes your perspective and I realized that that wasn't a sustainable life I wanted for the future and I feel very blessed that that occurred to me at age 27, because I think a lot of people don't have that moment until late 30s, 40s or 50s. Gloria "Grace" Rand Would you matter? Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. You're very well blessed to be able to have that awareness at such a young age, especially and I'm not sure if you are a parent or not, but especially if you had it before you have any children. April Roberts So yeah, Well, at that point I planned to be a parent, and so that was very much in my thinking as well. Right, like, how do I manage all of this? Because you know, I grew up in South Mississippi, so the deep South, where families very engrossed and involved and so and not that it's only there, but you know that was kind of top priority and so that was in my thinking. So, anyway, what happened was we were in the midst of getting his green card after we got married and his grandfather got sick, and his grandfather was the closest person in the world to him and he wasn't allowed to leave the country because of that process, and so I just remember being at the lawyer's office going. You know, at this point I'm 27, 28. Well, I guess we're moving to Italy, because I just saw this person I love, you know, whole face fall, and so he was on a plane the next day and I came a month later. So that was, that was a crazy time, trying to wrap up my job, sell everything we own. He's in Italy looking for us a place to live. And, you know, in my first year of marriage, I arrived in Italy under these circumstances, which it's funny because I teach the five pillars of Vixen, and I'm like gosh, if only my like 27, 28 year old self had had these five pillars when I was dealing with all of this, it would have been so much better. Because what happened for me is I went to Italy. My law degree wasn't good, I didn't think about that ahead of time, I couldn't get a job in a law firm doing anything else, because they told me I was over qualified because I was a lawyer. And so I suddenly you know this kid that had taken AT ACT exams on the weekend and always planned the future I suddenly found myself in this position where I was a house