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How to Add a Gradient Background to Your Squarespace Website
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How to Add a Gradient Background to Your Squarespace Website

Looking for a simple way to elevate your Squarespace website design?

Adding a gradient background is one of the easiest ways to bring depth, texture, and personality to your site (and there’s no coding required!)

Instead of a flat block of color, gradients create a smooth flow between two shades. They’re one of those easy but impactful design tweaks that can shift your website from 🙂 to 🤩🤩🤩

In this quick tutorial, I’ll walk you step-by-step through how to create a custom gradient background in Squarespace, share my favorite design settings, and give you pro tips to make it look seamless.

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3 Powerful Kundalini Kriyas to Clear Fear and Grow Your Spiritual Business
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3 Powerful Kundalini Kriyas to Clear Fear and Grow Your Spiritual Business

Kundalini yoga is known as the “yoga of awareness.”

It’s a yogic technology that combines mantra (chanting), mudra (hand positions), breathwork, movement, and/or meditation into sequences called ‘kriyas.’

Kind of like yogic prescriptions, each kriya serves a specific purpose, such as alleviate depression or call in prosperity. Whatever your desire or challenge is, there’s a kriya for that!

In a general sense, kundalini yoga helps us release mental blocks, shift our energy, and expand our nervous system’s capacity. So we can more easefully move through life and business.

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Building a Soul-Led Brand: Lessons From 10+ Years as a Spiritual Entrepreneur
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Building a Soul-Led Brand: Lessons From 10+ Years as a Spiritual Entrepreneur

I wasn’t looking for a guru. I just wanted to quit my day job.

At 23 years old and blissfully naive, I figured I’d start a business…

But somewhere between designing logos and replying to emails, I found myself in the soul-shattering ayahuasca trip known as ‘entrepreneurship.’

Here’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned in 13 years as a spiritual business owner and brand designer…

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Behind-the-Scenes: My Spiritual Branding Design Process
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Behind-the-Scenes: My Spiritual Branding Design Process

Spiritual branding isn’t like “normal” branding.

(Shall we call it “Muggle branding?”) 🤔 😂

In essence, spiritual branding is an embodied process of connecting to your inner truth and translating that into your business.

Spiritual branding is about reflecting the energy of who you are and what you’re here to do, through the vessel that you’re channeling your higher purpose through: your brand.

When your brand aligns with your authentic truth, it emits a frequency that people feel. It’s undeniable. And it can’t be imitated. (That’s the real “key differentiator!”)

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If You Like THAT, You’ll Love THIS: The Essential Business Resources You Need To Know About
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If You Like THAT, You’ll Love THIS: The Essential Business Resources You Need To Know About

Recently rediscovering the Pure Moods album took me down memory lane of 1990s nostalgia and inspired me to apply one of the most notorious marketing campaigns of that era to modern day business.

First, if you missed the cultural phenomenon that was Pure Moods, allow me to set the scene for you…

The year is 1997. The TV is on as you’re lounging on your inflatable armchair filled with confetti (naturally). Suddenly, the energy in the room shifts as chanting emits from the television and a deep voice invites you to “Imagine a world where music carries you away…”

Across the screen you see a montage of a unicorn, ocean waves, a newlywed couple. You’re mesmerized and find yourself agreeing with the narrator that—yes, Pure Moods *is* the perfect soundtrack for YOUR way of life.

Whatever *that* mood is, I’m just as into it today as I was then…

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Your Year-End Check: How to Know If Your Business Is On a Healthy Path of Growth
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Your Year-End Check: How to Know If Your Business Is On a Healthy Path of Growth

Even though I don’t feel that the new year truly starts until the Spring Equinox, I recognize that the end of the year offers us an opportunity to reflect and consciously close out a cycle.

With the end of 2024, I’ve been reflecting on this past year in my business—the challenges, the learnings, the gifts…

Beautiful new branding work was created. Boundaries were strengthened. Business partnerships were formed. My branding program was birthed.

But how do you determine if the year was a success and if your business is on a healthy path of growth?

There are a few simple check-ins I do at the end of the year to see if my business is in alignment for nurturing, sustainable growth.

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In Your Soft Girl Era? 🌸 Here Are 4 Ways to Invite Feminine Flow Into Your Business
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In Your Soft Girl Era? 🌸 Here Are 4 Ways to Invite Feminine Flow Into Your Business

We’ve all seen the #softgirlera memes on the internet, glorifying the “anti-grind”…

And I’m all about it.

Stepping into my soft girl era a few years ago felt like a deep, slow exhale—releasing the pressure valve of always doing, hustling, and achieving. (In other words, operating out of an imbalanced masculine energy.)

After navigating a health crisis, I knew something had to change my work lifestyle. So when I rebuilt my business, I prioritized my health. And that meant balancing my masculine (yang) energy with more feminine (yin) energy.

There’s now a softness in how I move through my day within my business, allowing for more ease, rest, and alignment. It’s a shift from pushing and striving to trusting and flowing.

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