Sophie Marshall ON: Making space for yourself to succeed and to live, exploring alternative treatments to be your best self in work and life, taking a side hustle to full time career and trusting the process amongst all the chaos.

In an age where the definition of health is starting to be rewritten, and things like burnout being as common as the flu, the importance of a lifestyle that supports your wellbeing has never been more crucial.

Queue Sophie Marshall, the founder of Gentle Habits, whose soul mission is to create products that help you explore rituals and daily practices that promote positive outcomes that better you and your life holistically.

We chat about making space for yourself to succeed and to live, exploring alternative treatments to be your best self in work and life, taking a side hustle to full time career and trusting the process amongst all the chaos. 

And so much more, this is Wildfemmes...

In this video we discuss:

01:46 - What is Gentle Habits and how did it come about
08:53 - Sophie's creative process and inspiration
09:35 - This is incense evolved into Gentle Habits
11:21 - Sophie shares how she had to start looking after herself and how important it is to have an open mind in regards to your health
13:45 - How an emotional melt down lead Sophie to start her self discovery journey, and exploring what she actually liked doing as a hobby
15:48 - What pushed Sophie to take her side-hustle to a full time career
17:14 - The risks of taking the side-hustle full time
18:16 - What's needed to run your own business, and what makes Sophie fullfilled through her business
19:42 - How Gentle Habits has helped Sophie be gentle with herself amongst the chaos of life and how her son has noticed the change in her because of it
20:18 - Emma and Sophie touch on the reframe of how society views working mums and the gender in-balance of it all and how Sophie's partner is 100% hands on in everything
21:17 - Sophie shares her #buwoo (business woo-woo) and the two things she has integrated into her life that have been a game changer
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