← The Spiritual Hustler
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Welcome to the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Zweig, multi seven figure serial entrepreneur, best selling author and branding and business coach. And this is a show where we are redefining the word hustle. Reclaiming our true feminine nature of magnetism and putting down the self judgments and shame around loving to work and making a lot of money at it. On this show, you're going to learn how to stop hustling and start spiritually hustling. By pressing play, you are now part
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of a new movement of women who
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don't hustle for money. We hustle for meaning. We don't hustle from lack. We hustle for love. We don't hustle from survival. We hustle for humanity's thriving. We hustle toward healing the ancestral programming of fear and step into a new understanding of safety in the body. To receive this shift isn't going to only heal your life.
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It's going to make you a whole lot richer too.
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This is the Spiritual Hustler Podcast.
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Well, hello my beautiful spiritual Hustler sisters, Lightworker women of the new Earth rising. You have come to the right place. If you feel that's you, I know that's you. Thank you for always being here. If you're not new, welcome back. If you're new, welcome here. I am so honored that you have taken the time to to spend a little time with me on this podcast. It really is such a special place. We have such a special community. I get a real clear hit all the time, week to week about the women that I get to serve and speak to and support and all the multidimensional ways I get to support you all. And when I really tune into the podcast, I feel such a sense of connection to the women that listen to this podcast. It has really become one of the greatest pieces of my life, not just my platform. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here. If you are new, you learn a lot of things today. If you're not new, you already know this, but every Thursday on the podcast, I come in with a tiny little key. It's called the Unlocking series. I'm really into keys these days. I'm into unlocking the codes of consciousness that really open up the doorways, the dimensions, the truths, the new beliefs of who we really are and who we really came here to be. Because on the Spiritual Hustler podcast, we talk about all things business and we talk about all things spirit sexuality, hence the title of the show. But we really, truly do it all. In service of the woman we are unbecoming in order to become. It's really a show around identity, how you see yourself as a leader, as a sister, as a entrepreneur, as a thought leader, as a mother, a lover, a friend, a partner, a team member, an expert. It has to always start with you. This is a really pertinent topic that I wanted to unlock today and hand you a little tiny key off of my cosmic keychain for you to unlock, to really sit with you, to really create some space intentionally to make sitting with yourself a practice. And what inspired this particular episode today is that I just got back from a two week sabbatical writing my third book that comes out in July of 2027. I have done this now a couple times. This is not my first rodeo, so I know the drill of how I finish a book with a deadline. When I'm given one by my publisher of six months, seven months, nine months, four months, whatever it might be. I get to work on the weekends. On Fridays, I carve out sacred writing time throughout my schedule to get it done. But the only way that I can truly get it done and finish it is always blocking at the end of that deadline Runway. Whether that's six months, whatever, is to get away for final few weeks close to the deadline to finish it. It's always like where the magic comes. And I've done this for the other two books for B. And I went to Costa Rica for the light work. And I really, really love Costa Rica. This is probably not going to be what you expect to hear, but I'll tell you the truth. I lost one of my dogs in December of 2024, really unexpectedly. Don Julio. Shout out to my rainbow buddy. Well, I currently have two dogs, but it was Don Julio and it was Zoe, who's my daughter. She's my soul dog, my soul companion, my heart dog. Shout out to my dog, moms. You get it? And when we lost Don Julio, everything kind of came into form and focus with Zoe being my soul dog. Not that Don wasn't my soul dog, but Zoe is my daughter. I got her when she was 3 pounds, 8 weeks old. She's 13 years. And I knew in that moment, I felt, because there was a part of me, this is not a show about dogs. I'm going to get to the true topic, I promise. I really had this unconscious belief that my dogs would live forever. Like losing them was never on my radar. So when I lost Don, I looked at Zoe and I was like, wow, I really am on borrowed time. And I couldn't take her to Costa Rica. She can't fly. It's a long story. So I'm like, okay, I want to go away for a few weeks, but I don't want to be without her. I want to take her with me. I want to be able to take my dog to wherever I go, close to home, where I can drive, where I can be fed, not worry about food. Long story short, I found this amazing place called so Hum Healing center in Asheville, North Carolina which was a few hour drive from where I live. And while it was amazing to be with Zoe, I was really with myself. I spent two full weeks in absolute solitude. I turned off notifications, I got texts, of course, every day. I didn't respond to anybody. I didn't check my email. I even told my assistant I was like, send me an end of day slack every day with what I need to know. She did it. I didn't even read it. She was probably frustrated with me. Just kind of let the team pause and things to not move forward so that I could go deeply, deeply within. And there is so much to learn inside of solitude. And that's what we're going to unlock today. And my encouragement to you is not to necessarily book a two week sabbatical in the mountains if you can't afford to do that either in time or resources, but to make solitude a practice. It is the portal to all of your power, all of your clarity and all of your creativity. And most of all to your divine connection. And if we're going to be leaders who need to be out there and leading teams and earning money and guiding communities and growing our businesses and our teams, we cannot do that sustainably unless we make solitude a practice. I just want to ground us in the truth that we are living in the loudest time in human history. You guys. The average person today is exposed to 6,000 to 10,000 ads a day. We check our phones 150 times a day. Our brain is processing across all the data points and notifications and pings and slacks and Updates and information. 34 gigabytes of information a day. Which is like compared to how our brains were intended to evolve from the evolution of humanity. At start, we're never meant to process that much information in a day. We have turned our systems into machines and robots. It's the nature of the beast. I'm guilty of this too. Which is why I make solitude a practice. I weave it in throughout my entire 12 month calendar, whether I'm writing a book or not. We were not designed for this level of input. And our souls were not designed at all for the level of noise that we are up against. And we all kind of know that. And yet we wonder why we feel so disconnected, why we feel so burnt out, why we feel so activated, why we don't feel in touch with our hearts and our joy and our creativity. And we think we're gonna find it in a dance class or a big trip with all of our girlfriends or big retreat with a bunch of women or a therapist office. And listen, I am here for all of the above. I do it too. But it is not, in my view, what we really need to unlock if we're going to come closer and deeper to our own unique power. We are greatest teachers. We are in a state of constant simulation and constant communication and constant productivity and constant going and scheduling and doing even the things that we consider breaks, like a vacation or a girls trip or a big night out with a bunch of friends. Dancing. It's all stimulation. We don't even go to the bathroom without our phones anymore. Never not stimulated. And I believe that we are addicted to input because we're afraid of what is inside, of the absence of it, what will happen in the quiet, in the silence, in the solitude. Travel alone pretty much once a year. I do my own thing. I got into the habit of doing this a couple years ago. Now it's a thing. And whatever. People don't really pay that much attention to you, Just so you know. I'm just putting that out there. Everyone's living their lives. But there was a season where I was traveling often by myself and I would get messages from my community. I really didn't get that this time. Everyone was there supporting my book. It was very sweet for all of you that were sort of following along the journey. Women were like, how do you do that? How could you travel alone? I would never know what to do with myself. Who do you talk to? What do you do with your hands? Don't you get bored? Aren't you lonely? What does your husband think? And like, silence is actually some of the most interesting conversations you'll ever have because you're meeting yourself and you really are the most interesting person you know. And if you don't believe that, let me remind you. The reason why you feel stuck and you don't have clarity is because you're searching for answers outside of yourself. When you really hold that inner knowing. And it's the constant over consumption and overstimulation that drowns that out. And yet we're so afraid to meet ourselves there. Yes, because we feel like it's going to be lonely, but it's confronting in the most beautiful way. And we have to take the time to sit with ourselves and be confronted by our truth, by the woman in the mirror, by our thoughts, by our divine downloads, by our fears, by our own triggers. I cried every day on my sabbatical. It was the most cleansing, beautiful tears. I didn't really cry about anything specific. I was so in my heart. I got to pour into myself instead of being constantly available and responsive to other people and relational all day long. And the truth is, we often feel that being alone feels unsafe. It feels maybe selfish, indulgent. But if you do not take the time to pour back into you and truly receive that space, you are not going to be good for anyone else. Loneliness is not the same thing as solitude. Loneliness, in my view, is ultimately a disconnection from self. So you can feel more lonely posting on Instagram all day long and sitting on Zoom calls all day long, running your kids around on carpool all day long and stacking your schedule with social events all week long. And that to me, can feel like a more lonely, isolating experience than solitude does. Because solitude is devotion to yourself, the most interesting woman you know. And I just want to explain that when I was in North Carolina, it wasn't hard. It was delicious. And it wasn't just delicious because I didn't have to make dinner for my husband and answer a thousand texts a day and take care of my team all day long and be available to everyone all the time. It was delicious because the power of clarity that I got from the divine in the pure presence of nature and good sleep and quiet. I mean, I wrote my book, but I did not fill my days when I wasn't writing my book. I would just sit and stare at the sunrise or the sunset with Zoe on my lap. I would color. I would make mindless fourth grade level art. I would listen to music, not a podcast. I didn't around on my phone. I was just being with myself. And when we really allow ourselves to go all the way into solitude, something happens. Our nervous system. Exhale. I actually haven't reached that exhale in a minute. And I am back now. And I'm like, I am corporating. So I talked to my assistant yesterday. I'm giving you a page from my leadership playbook right now. I was like, sam, we're gonna get on the phone this week and we are going to look at the months of May Through December. And we are carving out not time off, but time in. Because I cannot show up in my highest service to all of you unless I create that exhale as a practice. And when you drop into that level of sweetness in solitude, your creativity gets to open, your emotional processing gets to be unraveled in the most beautiful way. You get to hear your own intuition. And most of all, you get to hear your truth. This is where you get the downloads. This is where ideas arrive versus being forced. Our best ideas, our best vision, our greatest work, our most brilliant books are going to come from the scrolling. They're not the researching, the reading the books, the signing up for all the programs, the quick nature walks. As much as I love them, they come from real significant space. That is where you find your own knowing. And you don't have to force it. It comes to you. I want to invite us all to stop the constant consumption, to really reclaim your headspace. Because the world needs what's really trying to come through, not necessarily what's already here. What's already here has gotten you this far. But if you want to go further and wider and reach more people and make a bigger impact and expand your wealth and your joy, you have to clear, you have to empty so that you can receive what's next. And I want to invite you all to practice traveling by yourself. Even if it's just like a weekend in a staycation. If you can't afford to do that because you've got kids or can't afford the weekend at a local hotel or wherever you are, it doesn't matter. Here's my expanded invitation to you. Take yourself out to dinner. Truly go to a restaurant, book a table for one. Put away your phone. Don't be on your phone the whole time. Bring a book, bring a journal. Be that weird girl sitting by herself at a hip restaurant and let people judge you. I promise you they won't. They're going to be intrigued, they're going to be inspired. You're actually going to probably strike up a conversation with your server that you never would have had with a big group of people at a table, or even a dinner date at a table or two and learn something new about yourself. There is so much power in solitude. It's where you build self trust. It's actually how you hear God or the goddess. It's how you remember who you really are. So many of us feel so overwhelmed and so disconnected. I speak with you and what I have learned, not just in this last sabbatical, but in every single time I took time in, not time off, I learned that the answer is never more input. Never. It's always less. So go be alone. Not because you have no one in your life or you're lonely or you're weird. Go be alone. It is an unlock because it's the place where you finally meet. And it's the only place you can meet the most interesting woman in your life. You don't be too busy to get to know the next layer of her, because that next layer is what the world needs as much as you. You just have to go find her first. I love you all so very much. Thank you for being here, as always, and I will see you on the next episode of the Spiritual Hustle podcast. Bye, guys.