“Early in business, we often wear masks, borrowed ideas of what business or spirituality should look like, until we grow into what is truly ours.””

With Renée Gardiner, Director of KŌTA Health and Leadership Academy, Founder & Archeologist

About this episode

In this episode, Renée Gardiner and Gabrielle Walker explore the evolving relationship between personal growth, spirituality, and business.

Renée, director of KŌTA Health and Leadership Academy, for a reflective conversation about the phases of building a purpose-led business ~ from the early stage of learning systems and wearing the “masks” of business, through the messy middle of identity, sustainability, and self-worth, to a deeper stage where business becomes a vehicle for consciousness, service, and authentic expression. Together they unpack how business can mirror our inner world, challenge our definitions of success, and invite us into greater alignment with our values and calling.

We talk all things business, the phases, challenges and highs of business. As well as our journey together. Renée was a presence in my life when I began my business journey and was still working in other roles. She was co-facilitating the Women in Social Enterprise group in Perth at the time and was a member of my first Mastermind.

Renée Gardiner is a holistic mental health and social researcher, writer, coach and entrepreneur. She is a paradigm explorer and reality shifter who is fuelled by the eternal mystery and wonder of life.

In this episode you will find

00:19 Meet Renée
01:55 Business as a Spiritual Path
03:40 Renée’s Nonlinear Career
08:13 Phases of Business Growth
26:19 Healing Fuels Business Growth
27:54 Money Self Worth Success
29:17 The Tough Middle Years
31:29 Finding Alignment Feedback
37:03 Phase Three Integrated Self
40:48 Mana Vision Community
42:18 Redefining Service Empowerment
44:21 Trust Organic Timing
47:55 Integrating Masculine Feminine
49:21 Sovereign Leadership Defined
54:21 Vulnerability Shared Power

About Renée Gardiner

Renée is the Director of KŌTA, a health and leadership academy and impact consultancy, and at the time of recording was a weekly columnist at The West Australian. Renée has worked as an archaeologist across Australia and internationally, and through her boutique consulting firm specialising in community engagement, cultural planning, organisational development and social impact. She has also founded an award-winning social farming enterprise dedicated to mental health and wellbeing.

Renée’s journey into the heart of humanity has been an excavation of socio-cultural constructs, stories and belief systems, processes and relationships. As well as her own inner world and psyche. She reinterprets what it means to be human and re-conceptualises our place in creation. To live in a mutually symbiotic relationship with nature as the ultimate path of health and healing.

Having walked an unconventional route, Renée’s career and life are united by one core philosophy = Connection. There is a greater force of life that moves through all of us, from the planets to people and the plant kingdom. All is related in divine Oneness.