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Meet Carole Marie Downing, a coach, song leader, and facilitator passionate about creating resilience through challenging times. Her initial career was in nursing, working in areas of hospice and integrative medicine. She then shifted to coaching after receiving a master's degree in psychology, emphasizing consciousness, health, and healing.

She utilizes both her professional background and personal experience to gently support clients to tune in to their capacity to thrive. After a loss and significant life transitions, her most recent work as a song leader and music guide encourages people to sing and learn music in a way that creates connection and cultivates the transformational act of bringing our voices fully into the world. Carole Marie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves hot cups of tea. She enjoys making music out of everything life offers up and going barefoot in the sand.

** Carole believes we can use music as a way to create more connection and bring our voices to the world.**

• Attunement - If we were to look at an instrument that was out of tune, we wouldn't say that it was broken or hopeless; instead, we would tune it, and I feel this is the same with people.
• If life isn't going exactly as we would like, and we are out of sync with the world, it’s simply a request for re-attunement and noticing where we need to come back into alignment.
• We can look at our relationships with ourselves and others as being out of tune or in harmony.
• Initially, Carole experienced music as a way to heal from the grief of loss.
• Sometimes, life experiences can’t be captured in words, and only music can help us express and move through our pain. When we allow ourselves to feel that deeply, we become wise to the fact that there can even be other emotions felt while we are in pain, such as beauty and gratitude.
• Our culture influences whether we feel safe enough or confident enough to bring our voices into the world. Many people have this idea that they have to sound a certain way to sing, which is not true.
• It’s so important that more of us access our voices in this way and that we look at a chorus as a metaphor for our humanity. Sometimes there is disharmony, and this is always true; before we have harmony together, it’s a necessary part of the process.

Links:

• Instagram: Carole Marie Downing (@carole.downing)
• Tune to Joy - Carole Marie Downing
• (20+) Carole Marie Downing | Facebook
• Teachings From Grief - Gangaji.org
• Carole Marie Downing Writes About Her First Year As A Widow — Grief Gratitude & Greatness
• Writer, coach, & widowed mom Carole Marie Downing — Jenny Lisk
• LinkedIn: Carole Downing

I was lucky enough to have worked with Rachel to create the branding for The Revelation Project, and was astonished when she revealed it to me. It’s a mark with multiple meanings that so captured the many angles of what The Revelation Project is.

My logo is of two faces looking at one another, their outline creating a butterfly. The butterfly is a symbol of transformation; a story that is near and dear to my heart. The two faces represent self-love and the power of witnessing other women. Witnessing, or truly seeing another, and celebrating each other, are two very important elements to every interaction I have with all the women I serve through The Revelation Project. Rachel created an image that represents not only me but the many women the project serves as well as our power, our purpose, and our ability to become the most beautiful version of our true selves.

Listen in as Rachel and I talk about mothering, female entrepreneurship during covid, business as a form of self-expression, the evolution of a brand, the importance of investing in your business, the energetics of branding, The Desire Deck that she is creating, and the mark she wants to leave on the world.

*Show notes: *

• We use our businesses as a form of self-expression.
• Women charge a lot for their services but yet are not willing to put money into their own business and brand.
• Rachel believes that the best place to start with branding is within, at the core of who you are, and how you want to connect to the people you serve.
  
• Rachel created a journal to do the initial emotional branding work of who you are to help you get the clarity you need to begin.
• When we begin the process of starting a business, the first questions we need to ask are: How do we want to serve?
• How do we want to be known in the world?
• A brand is so much more than a mark, it is also an energetic vibration.
• If your brand and your message are created in alignment with the truth of the energy behind it, it’s going to resonate for others and attract them if they need your product or service.
  
• We are not our business. We inform our business, but it’s important that we not “be” our business.
• The Desire Deck is about helping women manifest their dreams.

Links:

• Your Brand Therapy ®
• Facebook: Brand Therapy
• Instagram: Rachel Dunham (@yourbrandtherapy)
• Your Brand Journal - Your Brand Therapy
• The Desire Deck