Episode 183: Entrepreneurship and Reclaiming Your Medicine With The Biz Bruja Vanessa Codorniu

A trailblazer and healing activist in the spirituality and wellness space with more than 12,000 sessions & thousands of students worldwide, Vanessa is an acclaimed bilingual psychic medium, clinical hypnotherapist, astrologer, mujer medicina, and soul business mentor. She is the founder of The School of the Healing Artes, supporting the next generation of Latinx and BIPOC healers and conscious leaders. A monthly advice columnist for HOLA! “Querida Brujita” and bi-monthly astrology writer for BELatina, she has been seen in SHAPE, Telemundo, Univision, iHEART radio, Primer Impacto, LATN, Refinery 29 and Hiplatina and many podcasts. She is the first Latina to co-host The Shift Network’s Energy Medicine Summit in 2021 and the Ancestral Healing Summit 2023. Nacimos Magicas~ Born Magical™ : an 8 week Journey in Reclaiming Your Ancestral Gifts has supported the hundreds of empaths to decolonize their spirituality, intuition and reclaim their powerful gifts.

An Argentine American who started doing readings at 16, became a professional intuitive at 22, held New Moon and Full Moon healing circles for two decades in NYC, Vanessa is celebrating her TEN years online full-time and over 27 years in service to her comunidad. Her online school hold certification programs in intuition, Akashic Records, Usui Reiki and hypnosis. In 2022, Vanessa created the Soul of Business Summit, now renamed, Ancestrally Rooted Business Summit, interviewing 37 Latine and BIPOC entrepreneurs on the impact of their ancestors on their work.

Vanessa is proud of her work as an empowerment facilitator for future young women leaders at the Bella Abzug Young Women’s Leadership Institute in NYC, creating innovative courses to support self-empowerment, inclusivity, and diversity for the last twelve years. She is also Creatrix of the Biz Bruja Podcast and has recently completed a year long training and initiations with The Inca Medicine School and the Apaza Family in Cusco, Peru.

For fun, you can find Vanessa sharing animated stories with her husband, chilling with her fur babies, cats, Zander and Che or playing one on the Harrisburg Improv Stage! Her team, Cosmic Trash makes light of pop spirituality and astrology. In This Episode:

• Vanessa shares her origins story of how she knew she had metaphysical gifts and how she started her Biz Bruja business.
• What was it about businesses that led her to be able to channel for them and business owners?
• How does Vanessa show up as a healer existing in late-stage capitalism?
• Vanessa's reflections on the collective healing journey of 2020-2022 and what we are being called to do in 2023.
• The reason why Vanessa hid amongst her famous cohort and the moment that Vanessa came "out" into the spotlight as the Biz Bruja.
• Having a spiritual business is a long game.
• What Vanessa "sees" coming for us in 2023.
• Vanessa shares about ancestral hypnosis healing and why working with ancestors is so important in her work.

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