Hall SHEILA
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Meet Sheila Hall. The Naturopathic and Herbal Medicine practitioner who customizes the health needs of Women Entrepreneurs and Business owners through her Health and Wellness Concierge service. In this read, she shares how she helps women stay "Healthy and Hustling" and discusses her book "Spiritual Healing Using Natural Health" and its impact on women's health today. How did you come up with the term "Healthy while Hustling," and what motivated you to start the Masterclass? I've embraced this term since I was forced to become a fulltime entrepreneur. I had lost my corporate job, but I had a side hustle. At that time, I was recently divorced, a new homeowner, and had bought a new car. I needed a job that could pay my bills and health insurance. Since I didn't have 34 | BSM MAGAZINE | BSMANDMEDIA.COM
a support system, I knew that the number one thing to support myself was to learn how to stay healthy while I hustled if I was going to become a full-time entrepreneur. I guess I never said "Healthy while Hustling" until recently. As I started becoming involved with coaching classes and masterminds, learning how to grow my business, I noticed how many inspiring entrepreneurs were unhealthy, struggling with weight gain and lack of energy. How you show up in a room is one of the most important things for an entrepreneur. This type of training was lacking from most leadership-building platforms, which inspired me to start one. So many sacrifice their health for the dream. In addition to the Masterclass, how do you get people to take seriously the phrase, "Don't compromise health for your hustle!" Taking our health for granted is easy because our bodies are resilient. We must remember that we are naturally dying every day, and not honoring our health will speed up the natural process. That's a big price to pay for a dream that you may not be able to enjoy or for a dream that couldn't come true because of your health. What quick tool can you share for those unable to participate in the Masterclass? Listen to your body. Take 30 minutes by yourself in a quiet environment and envision that you are inside of yourself exploring.
Our bodies whisper to us what they need. We must pay attention because we don't want our bodies to yell at us! When we take those whispers seriously, we usually can adjust our imbalances before trauma creeps in. Your group courses offer so much as a reminder to practice self-care. Was there ever a time when you compromised your health for your career? Yes! When I first started building my business, I had just turned 40. I hustled so hard to keep afloat and was able to build a multi-six-figure business until I reached 49. At some point, I stopped listening to my body. I stopped paying attention to what I was eating or the stress that I was under. I knew I felt different, and something was off. I even went to my doctor, but she couldn't find anything. Six months later, I went into menopause. I ignored my perimenopause symptoms, so I wasn't prepared for what came next. Unfortunately for me, I had a bad menopausal experience in which I fell into a deep, suicidal depression that caused me to lose everything that I built. I overcame my hormonal imbalances by using natural practices instead of medications. What has been the feedback from employers participating in your "Health is Wealth" program? Do you also extend this to individuals and small businesses? The feedback has been amazing. Knowing how to implement key practices into their lives without