Unleash the Empress: Spiritual Health for Life Wealth

By Shaman Isis and Cynthia L Elliott

UNLEASH THE EMPRESS IS THE SELF-LOVE BOOK FOR THOSE READY FOR A COMPLETE LIFE RENAISSANCE

In this refreshingly honest and entertaining guide to your god or goddess glow-up, communications pioneer (she founded influencer marketing), inspirational speaker, and mindfulne

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gothic House Media
• Release date: May 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088047811

Shaman Isis

Best-selling author ShamanIsis, the spiritual avatar and literary persona of Cynthia L. Elliott, emerges as a multifaceted thinker, guide, and mystic. She is a captivating speaker and mindfulness advocate, revered for her groundbreaking contributions to the marketing industry. In the realm of media, she has become a prominent voice known for reshaping cultural landscapes and pioneering influential sectors like brand communications and influencer marketing. For more than 15 years, she has been dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to manifest their aspirations. Her guiding principle centers on fostering emotional intelligence, promoting innovation, and championing communication, ultimately guiding people toward the creation of both enriching personal and professional experiences. She imparts her wisdom through an array of channels, including written works, consulting, workshops, engaging speeches, book signings, and insightful podcasts. One of her most sought-after topics is the transformative Engineering Joy.Cynthia's literary achievements include two published books from Gothic House: Unleash the Empress (available worldwide), and her eagerly anticipated memoir, Memory Mansion, an extraordinary narrative that unravels her life's fascinating journey.Her influential presence extends to the digital airwaves as the host of the widely followed "The ShamanIsis Show," accessible on Spotify and YouTube. She passionately champions consciousness, mental health, and mindful engagement in politics and education.She has graced the screens of prestigious television networks, including Entertainment Tonight, E!, Access Hollywood, and Inside Edition. Her pioneering contributions have garnered recognition in various media outlets such as Esquire, the LA Times, The New York Times, Vogue, W, Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, making her a true luminary in the world of thought leadership and transformation.www.ShamanIsis.com

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Unleash the Empress

Spiritual Health for Life Wealth

Cynthia L. Elliott, Shaman Isis

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Introduction:

You are ready for a life transformation. Congratulations on taking control. This book is your springboard to inner power and living joyfully. I wrote it to inspire you and offer a recipe for profound change.

The first part shares the life experiences that led me to healing. The second part shares the spiritual practices that allow you to turn pain into your superpower. It is one-part testimony and a one-part essential list of spiritual practices. Practices that lead you to your higher self while simultaneously stimulating your curiosity.

You are choosing to go back and revisit your thoughts, behaviors, and habits so that you can redesign your life experience. You are fortifying your inner world and learning how to create a mindset. You are healing the past so that you can move forward.

You decide what to focus on; you are that powerful! Your thoughts determine your mental state. Your mental state determines your emotions. Your emotions determine your reality. What your conscious and subconscious mind focuses on determines your life experience. You have chosen to take control of this life experience and step into your most divine self.

You are learning how to control energy, your energy. To achieve your dream life via manifestation, you must be in vibrational alignment with what you are trying to manifest. That energy is you as a divine being. That divine self is the energy of inner wisdom and consciousness, the state that will allow you to enjoy what you choose to create.

I look forward to hearing your testimony.

Warmly,

Shaman Isis

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Chapter 1

Piercing stare. You know, the girl who had that desk before you was a Princess..a real-life princess. said my office mate Bridget.

Ring, ring; my desk phone rang before I had time to process her comment. I had to focus. You just never know who could be calling Nadine Johnson and Associates.

After years of hard work and hiding, I was officially an associate at one of New York City's hottest PR firms.  

Hello, can I speak to Richard Johnson, Page Six's Richard Johnson, said a familiar, booming voice.

It was NYC's own Donald Trump. I met him at my previous job with an eyewear guru named Robert Marc. Robert's flagship store was around the corner from Trump Tower on 56th and 57th street. That jewel of a store was where I befriended a New York Times writer that helped me get my new job, Rene Chun.  

After years of seeing my hustle at the chic boutique, he got my foot in the door with fashion and nightlife PR queen Nadine, wife of one of the most powerful gossip columnists on the planet. He was a New York Post journalist and Page 6 editor Richard Johnson.

I could guess why Trump called; he would pitch Richard his latest wins and biggest plans. I remember being simultaneously impressed and disgusted that he was willing to do it himself. He understood the power of PR and media in the late 90s in a way that few others did.

I sat at Robert's delicate antique tables for over four years, inhaling lessons from many global icons. Now, I am officially on to my next adventure, learning from a master of the PR craft.

I was just weeks into my glamorous new role at Nadine's and getting accustomed to talking to influential people across the art, theater, entertainment, and political worlds. There was also a sprinkling of players from the newest darling of the business world, the tech industry. These were good times in NYC, dangerously good times.

After a rough start, I was finally at a job I knew would give me the experience and contacts I needed to make it in NYC. I have been hustling at jobs since I was 13 and far from the wide-eyed girl that my looks projected.

Growing up in Memphis, I had to guard myself to stay innocent and sane. Sadly, I was far more knowledgeable about life than I wanted anyone to know.

After years of scrambling, I finally had a new name I could use without worrying about being found. I spent the last few years building a reputation as a lovely young woman from the South who lucked out in New York City.

Hold on, please, I patched the call to Richard and Nadine's bedroom. Yes, long before people worked out of their homes, one of the hottest PR firms in NYC ran out of Johnson's townhouse. We call it the treehouse.

The treehouse is nestled on 18th Street in downtown NYC. I liked the treehouse; it was eclectic and had funky decor. They were a power couple, and that meant art in every room.

I also needed more time to prepare for the fancy offices I had seen in visions of my future.

I could grow in this messy, fabulous townhouse. Gagosian was a client. So, artists popped by all the time. I loved it, even with Nadine's demanding and in-your-face style. It was destiny that I was right there, right then.

The team at Nadine's was young and fabulous. We will go on to become world-class PR darlings. That is what she had an eye for, talent. She also had a vision for a great storyline.

Nadine taught many of the brightest names in PR how to sell the media a good story. It put Lizzy Grubman on the map; before she did it for Mercedes Benz SUVs in a spectacular Hampton incident.

Now, I was hearing about a Princess.

Sorry, Bridget. What were you saying? I asked casually. Although, I was dying to know what she meant by that comment.

Bridget turns to me; I am again struck by how much she looks like a fairy. Her Audrey Hepburn haircut and arched eyebrows made her a unique beauty.

C-y-n-t-h-i-a .. (she always enunciated my name), the woman who had that desk before you was a princess..a real-life princess. She married the duty-free king, and it's in all the right media, she sings-songs. You have big shoes to fill, she added with a delicate eye roll.

Bridget was from North Carolina, and we both had Southern accents and mysterious origins. We also had snappy dialog and eye-rolling good times.

I am sure most people would celebrate upon hearing that news, but I am not one of them.

Chapter 2

The standard women were held  in the luxury PR business in the late '90s in NYC was demanding. The top women in that type of PR were often tall, thin, and blond. They came from the right family or married the right family. It was one or the other, and I had neither.

I spent my formative years in an orphanage in Memphis and avoided people who were curious about my roots.

Most people have one reason for asking about your origins. Something I learned at a young age, and that life lesson, was getting affirmation from a new group of high-flyers.

Something always stood out to me about the whole blond thing. Natural blond hair is a silent tool of prejudice and quickly detects whether you have the right origins. Or the money to have your hair the perfect shade of Park Avenue blonde.

Few could see that for what it was at the time. It was supposedly about the expense of affording blond hair. If you were there, you must admit that in the late 90s, NYC high society was very blond.

Just look at Truman Capote's infamous book, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, for insight into the phenomenon. Although fiction, the book was based on Truman's experiences with the cream of society.

Chapter 3

I am not 100% sure why I entered a field with the odds stacked against me. Maybe it was the fighter in me. I resented people assuming I couldn't do something. I am already in my late 20s and learning to be very strategic with how to get access to what I need. To make exciting things happen in my life.

Manifesting was something I had learned at a young age. I would manifest the role my spirit guides said I was destined to perform.

It was honestly an accident of skill, meeting the right opportunity when Rene said, 'If I could survive a year, I could write my ticket in PR.'

That was all I needed to hear. I knew I could survive a year. Look at what I have already endured.

Well, I would survive it, not some of the repercussions of that year, if being miserable for decades is survival.

Cynthia may have been my most valuable invention, but she would also be my worst enemy.

Chapter 4

Rene's gorgeous partner worked for Nadine. I realized after talking to him that I could frog-leap from Nadine's to a job in marketing, which was a field that demanded an MBA at the time.

I had already tried getting into the technology world several times. They only interviewed me because I was a woman and even told me that. They said they were looking for Stanford, Yale, and Harvard grads. Did I know anyone? LOL, some things rarely change.

Marketing looked feasible. If you are capable of making measurable trends happen in the media.

Put yourself on the PR map. That was the only way I could get to be a marketing executive. I wanted to be a respected businesswoman. Just like the fancy woman I saw walking through an airport in San Diego years ago.

I am now honing my communication, writing, and storytelling skills by working for a wicked-smart, connected, and unpredictable diva.

At Robert Marc, I learned how to make product trends with real-world influencers. With Nadine Johnson and Associates, I would know how to make anything trend in the media. That is when I first began to use the phrase influencer marketing.

Chapter 5

My parents broke up after my father's horrible accident on the Autobahn in Germany. He was off battling alcoholism. At the same time, my mother was trying to figure out how to survive with three daughters on a waitress's tip.

After we became homeless, my mother made the extraordinary decision to try and rescue her three girls by putting them in Saint Peter's Home For Children in Memphis, right around the corner from Elvis's grand estate, Graceland.

Saint Peter's used to be called an asylum. I was happy they saw the light in that terrible word describing a place that housed children.

I had been hiding from my foster father for years. He had an unhealthy obsession with the women in my family. After years of being followed and spied on, I changed my name and ran to California. After being found, I ran again. This time I changed my name and ran to NYC.

My first twenty years were colorful. They were also a secret that I went to a great deal of trouble to cover up.

My unusual childhood prepared me for NYC's tough streets. It took another four years on Madison Avenue to prepare for luxury PR.

First, I had to reinvent myself—the last reinvention in a series I would do for a long time.

Cynthia was my greatest invention. Please do not call me Cindy, which is my Tennessee version. Cynthia is a former model and actress (har) who recently married a great guy from a lovely Franklin Lakes family.

It had the perfect ring to it. I sounded normal and had wanted normal for so long that, in retrospect, I married a resume. You can't genuinely love someone if you do not love yourself.

Little did anyone know that I had been hiding from my foster father for years. I had not used my