In a world where burnout is officially recognized by the World Health Organization, we need more people like Lalah Delia to help us bring back to balance. The author, spiritual writer, and wellness educator has been a force in the self-care space encouraging and empowering us all to mindfully care for ourselves with her Vibrate Higher Daily platform.
Delia believes that our vibration governs how we show up in the world and how we perceive it, too—it’s how we step into our power and show up for ourselves. This message really resonated with our attendees at the Create & Cultivate Self Care Summit and one quote stood out in particular: “When we remember who we are, the game changes.” That’s the kind of motivation we want to take with us into this new decade.
Read on to learn more about Delia’s mission, how her work is helping people to maneuver through the stress and reach bliss on the other side with grace and joy.
CREATE & CULTIVATE: You help people vibrate higher daily, so they can live a higher vibrational life on all levels—Can you tell us more about your mission? Why did you decide to create your own wellness company? What are you doing there?
LALAH DELIA: So much of the programming and daily structures in the world are taking our power away. My mission is to inspire people to vibrate higher daily, remember who they are, and to live their power. I created Vibrate Higher Daily to offer a reminder of another way of being in the world. One, that wasn't usually being promoted. We have to have a path and way of honoring our vibration because on a cellular level, that's who we are. We are wondrous vibrating cells. We are vibrational beings in need of a better way to live a higher-vibrational life. And that's what I offer with my brand, and in my new book, Vibrate Higher Daily, Live Your Power.
You're a classic multihyphenate—author, spiritual writer, spiritual creative, wellness educator, and certified spiritual practitioner—How do you navigate between all of these mediums and careers? What have you learned in following your creative passions over "staying in your lane"? What advice can you share for other women who want to make a pivot in their careers?
Navigating with these titles to me is more about integrating them. The message is the same. It's all connected, the same, and not different. It's the same message working through various vessels within my life. This posture has created a sense of wholeness for me. Integrate yourself. Take up more space with the abundance of your experiences and gifts.
When you hit a bump or hurdle in your career, how do you #FindNewRoads + switch gears to find success?
I love myself through it. This self-caring mindfulness supports me in pivoting in a better direction. And from there, I take all the time I need to learn, grow through it, and readjust my sails.
“When you move through fear and resistance, new strength and resilience that you never knew you had, takes control.”
Starting your own business is different from making a career pivot—What have been some of the biggest challenges? What has surprised you the most about launching a company? Why?
The biggest challenge thus far was hands down, making myself go for it, starting. Each new unfolding is the same. The 'birthing pains' of creating and launching a new project or offering into the world are real because fear and resistance are there blocking the door until that is, you take your power back, inhale courage, exhale doubt, and move through the fear anyway.
The thing that has surprised me the most about launching a company is that when you move through fear and resistance, new strength and resilience that you never knew you had, takes control. And as you surrender to it, it guides you to accomplish your mission and goals. Our inner-power and higher compass know the way. Being in alignment and in flow with this inner and higher awareness is essential.
You've had a lot of press around your work from Glamour magazine to MindBodyGreen and you've even been including panels including Create & Cultivate Self Care Summit—How did you secure this press and buzz around your brand? How has this been beneficial to the growth and awareness around your brand? Why?
It's honestly all been organic. Every opportunity landed in my lap, like a sweet blessing. The buzz and press that I've generated, I hugely believe, is from 'vibrating in my power'. Which I teach how to do throughout my new book. I've remained true to my purpose and mission, and haven't folded under pressure or failures. And this creates strong vibrational magnetism around one's self.
People can sense and feel when your work and message are real, pure, and from the heart; it's a welcoming frequency that invites people and opportunities in. This can be relayed in the press through your passion, confidence, insightfulness, joy, and love for your work.
The filtered world of social media often hides a lot of the hard work and hustle behind-the-scenes—what is the reality of being an entrepreneur in the wellness space today? How hard is it? What are some of the challenges? Why?
For me, there's a lot of mindful caring for myself and my nervous system. Due to the amount of output of my work, my energy can become depleted if I'm not careful. This is not a bad thing, it's just how any operating thing works. So I journey in grace there and honor this. We all need moments of reprieve, rejuvenation, and restoration. And for me, this looks nothing like stereotypical branded wellness.
This was a challenge for me at first because it all looked so good, even cool. But sooner or later, my mind, soul, and body were requiring and thriving from much more in-depth, yet simple, wellness work than creamy lattes, facials, yummy smoothies, and quick drop-in yoga classes. My reality was that I had to find my own best soul medicine. And I had to create a daily routine and workflow that allowed myself room to adjust and tweak where and when necessary. I had to find what brings me home to myself.
Can you recall a specific mistake you made in your career/business and share what you learned from it? How did you turn it into an opportunity?
Yes! I once entered into an investment and contract without knowing about putting in a termination clause to terminate the agreement by a specific time if I was unhappy with the outcome. This was a huge, long, and expensive lesson. Nowadays, I redline contracts and add any necessary clauses. I took my power back. Whew!
Wellness is integral to improving your mental health and self-love—Can you explain how we can all integrate more wellness into our lives to achieve a higher mental and physical state of health/wellbeing? What advice do you have for women struggling with finding their own confidence and self-love?
If we're not mindful, we can become too rigid in our thoughts and perceptions, and stuck in outdated patterns, spirals, or loops, that don't serve us. So to that, be mindful of not being too hard on your lovely self and journey in grace. Vibrate higher from wherever you find yourself, daily. Love yourself through whatever you go through. And remember that vibrating higher daily is how you take your power back. Do more of what makes you vibrate higher.
What is the best advice you have been given? Or a favorite piece of #realtalk? Why?
One of my teachers told me, ‘Look at the world each day as one big hospital and choose whether you're going to be the doctor or the patient.’
Success is such a broad term and it means something different to everyone—How do you define success? What traits do you need to succeed today?
Meaningful success to me is waking up each day as a vessel and doing what I love with honor, integrity, and higher purpose, and in return, being able to help others and support and provide for myself well. In order to succeed, it takes having a purpose, vision, a sure goal, resilience, courage, determination, self-discipline, honor, integrity, and not folding when it's too challenging, fearful, and unknown. It also takes having a powerful and effective support system to lean and depend on when necessary.
“Our inner power and higher compass know the way.”
What is the #1 piece of advice you'd like women to know when starting out or building a business? Why
These words from my book: ‘She remembered who she was, and the game changed.’ Whatever you experience on the path, remembering who you are and why you started, is how you take your power back, and it's how you live in your highest worth.
What is the #1 book you always recommend? Why?
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. This book is essential reading because until we truly get and honor how our mind operates and how we can take control of it, we live a life that is controlled by external and internal forces, cycles, and thought patterns that don't serve us.
Now it's my new book, Vibrate Higher Daily, Live Your Power. The information in this book saved, enhanced, and transformed my life, mindset, health, and career for the better. I cracked a code, simplified it, and wrote about it all in this book, so it can support readers as much as it has supported me and carried me through to this day.
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