How To Trust Your Intuition And Build An Aligned Business With Grace Emmons
The Amberly Lago Show: Stories of True Grit and Grace
Release Date: 11/12/2025
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info_outlineWe’re learning the secrets to thriving as a Spiritual Entrepreneur! In this episode of The Amberly Lago Show, Amberly welcomes Grace Emmons, intuitive coach, energy healer, and founder of Forward With Grace. With a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Columbia and expertise in Reiki and astrology, Grace empowers female leaders and spiritual entrepreneurs to reconnect with their intuition and create businesses aligned with their highest purpose.
Discover how Grace transformed her life after hitting rock bottom in the corporate biotech world: overcoming burnout, addiction, and depression to build a thriving healing practice. Together, Amberly and Grace dig into essential topics for women entrepreneurs, including how to listen to your inner guidance, overcome visibility fears, build scalable impact, and reframe your relationship with money. Grace shares actionable routines for connecting with your higher self, the importance of nature and energy work (like Reiki), and tips for moving beyond ego to step confidently into your purpose.
If you’re a female founder, healer, coach, or heart-driven leader navigating burnout, self-doubt, or looking to grow your influence, this episode is packed with inspiration, intuitive strategies, and powerful mindset shifts!
They Discuss:
Healing through intuition and energy work
Overcoming burnout and finding purpose
Challenges of entrepreneurship and self-reinvention
The importance of female empowerment
Fear of visibility and the “witch wound”
Nature and daily rituals for grounding
Aligning business success with spiritual growth
Timestamps:
00:00 "From Rock Bottom to Guidance"
05:24 Six-Year Healing Journey
06:49 "Five-Year Path to Purpose"
11:11 Overcoming Women's Visibility Wounds
16:29 Overcoming Fear to Publish Content
19:44 Reiki Amplifies Your Higher Self
24:52 "Pause to Prioritize Self-Care"
29:12 "Connecting with Nature Daily"
30:41 Topanga Canyon Oasis Pivot
35:02 Sound Bowl Healing Experience
38:22 "Divine Energy Through Reiki"
43:33 Awakening Intuition as a Superpower
48:55 Scaling Impact Beyond the Individual
50:37 "Reframing Money and Purpose"
55:31 "Gratitude, Growth, and Connection"
About Grace:
Grace Emmons’ approach is as cutting-edge as it is rooted in timeless wisdom. Founder of Forward with Grace, Emmons is trained across positive and depth psychology, behavioral science, spiral dynamics, Reiki and energetics, and incorporates a rich tapestry of spiritual and esoteric teachings encompassing Kabbalah, natal astrology, and metaphysics. Grace’s deep mastery of diverse disciplines uniquely positions her as a bridge between science and spirituality.
At its core, Grace’s work empowers leaders to foster self-awareness, self growth, and resilience, so their positive influence can resonate throughout their personal lives, businesses, communities, and the world.
Through her evidence-based Transformative Energy Healing method, Grace has elevated individuals, groups, and entire corporations to thrive. You can think of Grace as one part life coach, one part business coach, one part healer.
Grace has studied under world-renowned teachers Dr. Lisa Miller, pioneer in spirituality and psychology; Dr. Dan Tomasulo, new leader in positive psychology; Dr. Traci Stein, award-winning meditation guide and integrative care practitioner; Dr. Ruth Rosenbaum, mind-body medicine expert; Kelsey J. Patel, world-renowned reiki master; Debra Silverman, celebrity astrologer; and the Bergs at The Kabbalah Center.
When Grace isn’t helping others unlock their highest potential, she’s a proud mother of two girls and wife of a purpose-driven CEO who loves her morning coffee and hiking near her home in Topanga Canyon.
Grace and her husband created the Topanga Canyon Oasis, a boutique retreat and gathering space in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.
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