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Sydney Campos is a 2x bestselling author, master clairvoyant, and 3x founder who bridges entrepreneurship, embodiment, and multidimensional healing. Featured in Forbes three times, she has raised over $1M for frontier ventures and guided hundreds of leaders through transformational coaching, retreats, and trainings. With two bestselling books reaching more than 80,000 readers worldwide, Sydney empowers visionaries to embody authenticity, resilience, and purpose. Through the Visionary Souls Podcast, Soul Source methodology, courses, and global retreats, she offers both practical tools and live energetic transmissions that catalyze profound clarity and transformation.
In this episode of the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast, Christian welcomes Sydney Campos—two-time bestselling author, master clairvoyant, and visionary entrepreneur known for bridging spirituality, embodiment, and conscious leadership. Featured in Forbes and the founder of multiple purpose-driven ventures, Sydney has guided hundreds of leaders through coaching, retreats, and multidimensional trainings that awaken their full potential.
If you’re a spiritual entrepreneur or visionary leader feeling called to build from alignment rather than ambition, this conversation is a reminder of what’s truly possible when you slow down, listen, and lead from your essence. Sydney offers a profound truth: the next evolution of success isn’t about what you create—it’s about how deeply you embody who you are.
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Introduction
In a time when the world is shifting at an unprecedented pace, Sydney Campos reminds us that the real evolution begins within. A spiritual entrepreneur, clairvoyant, and bestselling author, Sydney bridges the worlds of embodiment, authentic leadership, and multidimensional consciousness—inviting us to remember that we are, quite literally, the medicine.
In this episode of the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast, she joins Christian Mauerer for a conversation about awakening, patience, and the courage to lead from presence. Together, they explore how inner alignment becomes the foundation for outer impact, and why this next phase of the Age of Aquarius calls us to live and lead from our highest truth.
In this article, you’ll discover:
- Why true leadership begins with embodiment and authenticity
- How to move from seeking external validation to embodying your own inner power
- The deeper meaning of the Age of Aquarius and what it means for conscious entrepreneurs
- Practical insights from Sydney’s path of bridging business, spirituality, and healing
This is more than a conversation about entrepreneurship—it’s a guide to remembering who you are, reclaiming your energy, and stepping into your role as a creator of the new world.
Part 1: Planting Seeds Before the World Is Ready
Every movement toward awakening begins with a few visionaries who can see the path long before others recognize it. Sydney Campos calls this the art of holding the vision—staying true to what you know is possible, even when the world hasn’t yet caught up.
In the episode, Christian reads from one of Sydney’s viral posts:
“You’ve been walking ahead, planting seeds in soil others didn’t yet recognize as fertile.”
This line captures the essence of spiritual entrepreneurship: creating from intuition, not validation. For many purpose-driven leaders, it’s easy to question whether their timing is right or whether the world is ready. Sydney’s reminder is that the divine timeline rarely aligns with human impatience. The call is to keep showing up, to keep watering the seeds, and to trust that what feels premature today will one day become the new standard.
Key reflections from this section:
- True leadership means staying anchored in vision even when external results haven’t appeared yet.
- Patience and presence are spiritual disciplines, not passive waiting.
- Every idea born from alignment will bloom when the collective is ready.
Sydney’s message is both grounding and activating: your role isn’t to rush the world’s awakening—it’s to embody the future now.
Part 2: The Core of Authentic Leadership
At the heart of authentic leadership lies one essential principle: embodiment. For Sydney Campos, this isn’t a buzzword—it’s a lived experience of presence, where mind, body, and spirit align. She explains that embodiment is the bridge between knowing and being, between speaking truth and living it.
Too often, leaders and entrepreneurs operate from the neck up—strategizing, planning, and optimizing—while their bodies hold the wisdom they most need to access. Sydney reminds us that the body is the portal to our intuition and clarity. When we slow down, breathe, and feel, we reconnect with the intelligence that has been guiding us all along.
“We can’t give to others what we don’t give to ourselves first.” — Sydney Campos
Embodiment becomes an act of self-love and integrity. It’s how we ensure our message, our mission, and our work in the world come from truth rather than performance.
Practices Sydney recommends for deeper embodiment:
- Breathwork — regulating energy and grounding presence.
- Sound and voice activation — using your voice to clear and express emotion.
- Movement — releasing stuck energy through dance, yoga, or intuitive flow.
- Stillness and listening — practicing being instead of doing.
Key insights from this section:
- Embodiment transforms spiritual awareness into tangible action.
- The more we inhabit our truth, the more magnetic and trustworthy our leadership becomes.
- Lasting impact doesn’t come from effort—it comes from alignment.
As Sydney shares, when we are embodied, our presence itself becomes medicine.
Part 3: From Plant Medicine to Inner Source
During the conversation, Sydney Campos offers a grounded yet powerful perspective on the growing fascination with plant medicine. While she acknowledges its role as a catalyst for awakening, she emphasizes that the ultimate purpose of any external tool is to remind us of our own power.
“We don’t need the medicine — you are the medicine.” — Sydney Campos
Sydney shares that after years of facilitating and integrating deep multidimensional experiences, she’s witnessed how external substances can sometimes fragment the spirit rather than integrate it. For her, the next evolution of healing is about reconnecting with our inner source—a direct line to divine intelligence that doesn’t require intermediaries.
She predicts that as planetary frequencies continue to rise, people will naturally be guided back to self-sourced energy and clarity of consciousness. Instead of seeking quick fixes or peak experiences, we’ll learn to cultivate stability, expansion, and healing through our own inner technologies—breath, sound, movement, and awareness.
Core lessons from this section:
- True healing comes from presence, not from external tools.
- The most powerful “medicine” is your own energy field, when clear and aligned.
- The coming years will favor sovereignty—working directly with your own source connection.
Sydney’s message is clear: the future of healing isn’t about escaping the body, but coming home to it. When we remember that the source of transformation lives within us, we become both the healer and the healed.
Part 4: The Age of Aquarius and the Rise of Conscious Business
When asked about the Age of Aquarius, Sydney Campos reframed it beautifully: rather than a distant prophecy, it’s a now age—a time of rapid acceleration, awakening, and innovation. Between now and 2028, she explains, humanity is experiencing an energetic gateway that’s shifting how we think, create, and connect.
These changes aren’t abstract; they’re being felt in business, leadership, and personal purpose. Sydney points out that manifestation is speeding up, intuition is heightening, and people are awakening to the truth that everything begins with energy. What we create in the outer world directly mirrors our inner frequency.
“We’re being called to operate from clarity—there can’t be any interference where we’re headed.” — Sydney Campos
For entrepreneurs, this means a radical shift in how success is defined. The era of hustle and hierarchy is fading, replaced by one of conscious business, collaboration, and energetic alignment. In this new paradigm, integrity and embodiment matter more than strategy alone.
Key takeaways from this section:
- The Age of Aquarius represents a collective rise in consciousness and frequency.
- Businesses built from clarity, alignment, and purpose will thrive in this new energy.
- Leaders are being asked to embody transparency, compassion, and unity in all they create.
Sydney envisions a future where technology, spirituality, and humanity evolve together—not in competition, but in harmony. As the veil between intention and manifestation continues to thin, every choice, every business, every word becomes an act of creation.
Part 5: Living and Leading in Authentic Flow
One of the most powerful themes Sydney Campos shares is the art of authentic flow—the ability to live, create, and lead without forcing outcomes. In a culture obsessed with productivity and progress, she reminds us that surrender is not weakness; it’s the ultimate form of trust.
Authenticity, she says, isn’t about self-improvement—it’s about self-remembrance. It’s returning to who you already are beneath the layers of conditioning, expectation, and performance. When we live from this place, alignment replaces ambition, and ease replaces effort.
“Get out of the way of being who you are.” — Sydney Campos
For many spiritual entrepreneurs, this means letting go of the need to constantly “do” and instead learning how to be. By listening to the body and following intuitive nudges, we enter a state where creativity, opportunity, and connection flow naturally.
Core practices for embodying authentic flow:
- Create spaciousness in your schedule to allow for presence and inspiration.
- Replace striving with listening—your body always knows the next step.
- Surround yourself with supportive communities that value authenticity over performance.
- Remember that your worth isn’t tied to output; it’s rooted in beingness.
Key insights from this section:
- Authenticity is a practice of allowing, not controlling.
- True success arises from alignment and presence, not effort.
- When you lead from your essence, the right opportunities find you effortlessly.
As Sydney and Christian reflect, the new paradigm of leadership begins with slowing down enough to hear your own truth. The more you embody that truth, the more the world aligns around it.
Part 6: Building Conscious Companies in the New Era
For Sydney Campos, entrepreneurship has always been a spiritual path—a playground for awakening, collaboration, and embodied leadership. Her journey from running a New York media agency to launching purpose-driven ventures like Odyssey and Ascend reveals how business can be both a mirror and a teacher.
She describes how her early success in media and PR eventually gave way to a deeper calling: to build companies rooted in consciousness, not competition. Each venture—whether a leadership convergence, a social platform for collective creation, or her current advisory work—became an initiation into greater humility, embodiment, and trust.
“Every idea I’ve ever built came through intuitive guidance—it was never about me.” — Sydney Campos
Her experiences underscore a key truth: the success of any conscious business depends on the energy and awareness of those leading it. When founders operate from alignment, their companies naturally attract the right people, opportunities, and resources. When they operate from ego or scarcity, the business reflects that too.
Essential lessons from Sydney’s entrepreneurial path:
- Intuition is a valid and powerful business strategy.
- Founders are being called to integrate healing with leadership.
- Success requires both structure and surrender—clarity of vision and flexibility of flow.
- Collaboration thrives when leaders are embodied, honest, and open to feedback.
Key insights from this section:
- Conscious business is not about perfection—it’s about presence.
- Every company becomes an expression of its founder’s frequency.
- The most sustainable ventures are built on service, alignment, and integrity.
Sydney’s story invites entrepreneurs to see business not just as a way to make money, but as a sacred opportunity to expand awareness and create structures that serve humanity’s evolution.
Conclusion
As the conversation comes to a close, Sydney Campos offers a breathtaking vision—one where humanity remembers its divine potential and lives in harmony with the planet. She invites us to imagine a crystalline world filled with vibrant oceans, thriving forests, and people radiating unconditional love from within. In this vision, every individual recognizes that their presence, their energy, their embodiment is the true medicine.
“All that you need is already here, hidden in plain sight—waiting for you to remember and receive.” — Sydney Campos
This message echoes the heart of The Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast: the reminder that transformation begins with awareness, and leadership begins with presence. The Age of Aquarius isn’t some distant future—it’s the reality we co-create every moment we choose to live authentically.
Final reflections to carry forward:
- You are not waiting for a new world to appear—you are building it through every conscious action.
- True leadership means living in alignment with your values, even when no one is watching.
- The most powerful business strategy is embodiment—showing up as your whole, authentic self.
Sydney’s invitation is clear: slow down, tune in, and trust the unfolding. When you remember that you are both the creator and the creation, the medicine and the messenger, you naturally align with the world that’s already waiting to emerge.
Podcast Transcript
Christian
What’s up beautiful people. This is Christian from the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast. And today I’m very honored and excited to have Sydney Campos on the podcast. She is a two times bestselling author, master clairvoyant and three times founder who bridges entrepreneurship, embodiment and multi-dimensional healing.
Featured in Forbes three times, she’s raised over one million in Frontier Ventures and guided hundreds of leaders through transformational coaching, retreats, and trainings. Such an honor to have you on, Sydney. I think you’re the perfect person for this podcast. I’m so excited.
Sydney Campos
Thank you so much. It’s great to meet you. I’m really happy to be here.
Christian
Yeah. So I don’t want to talk too much about the past because the present is now. And I do want to kick us off with ⁓ one of your previous posts that you wrote on Instagram and to just give us something to start off with. So I’m going to read it out, an excerpt from your post. For those building the world we came for.
Sydney Campos
Great.
Christian
holding a vision long before others could see it. Your time is coming. You’ve been walking ahead, planting seeds in soil others didn’t yet recognize as fertile. You’ve held the blueprint when the path was overgrown, the horizon far, and the crowd not yet ready to follow. The years ahead will accelerate everything.
Sydney Campos
Amen. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, thank you so much. came, you know, a lot of what I write, it’s for me, it’s how my guides will communicate and give me guidance. And then it ends up being really helpful to others. And that message came through at a time ⁓ when, you know, it was really, you know, part of a challenge I can even still, you know, face at times is just that feeling of being really
Christian
in this
Sydney Campos
you know, ahead of my time and maybe people listening relate, maybe you relate, knowing, you know, we came in with a vision of what is possible on this planet and what we’re able to create and what we’re maybe meant to be experiencing. And we’re given all of these visions and intuitive guidance and these different gifts that we come in with to actualize vision and to form, you know, but sometimes it can feel like a lot of this life for me has been about mastering patience and just right timing.
and divine alignment and listening, not trying to control things so much or at all and just allowing more of an unfolding. But there can be such a deep impatience I experienced sometimes of like, are we there? Are we ready you guys? Come on, let’s go humanity. Let’s create a more harmonious present loving world. And let’s go, that’s why I came here.
Christian
Yeah, I appreciate that so much. And I think that goes out to everyone that came before me, before us, you know, the work that people do and have been doing for all this time. You it’s like, you don’t understand how everything is just connected and how everything leads up to every day, every moment, a new reality, you know? yeah, what has helped me with patience is tea.
Sydney Campos
Yeah, I’m beautiful.
Christian
And
also connecting with people who are not that far yet, right? Because it’s like, oh, wow, you’re there still? Okay, that’s fine. How can I help a person that’s like totally not spiritual and totally not on the path of any conscious, like ooh, whatever, how can I have them feel love or gratitude or you know?
That’s part of the reason why, you know, the agency, the tea, like, ultimately the goal for both of these is to let someone feel something, if possible, love, you know? yeah.
Sydney Campos
Beautiful.
That’s it. Yeah, and that’s I love hearing that. Thank you. And sometimes it really is that simple when I hear you speak about this. It just everything boils down to presence and just going out of time like there’s no impatience in the present moment. You’re just here and now and what’s the point? The point is for me, I try you know as best I can in presence to yeah, embody that unconditional love and then really for ourselves first.
We can’t give to others what we can’t give to ourselves, which can be also another challenge a lot of us are going through right now, like deeper embodiment of what we talk about and teach and say. like, wait a minute, how’s my relationship to myself and giving myself these gifts that I can give other people so easily. And it’s all about presence and just deeper refinement into presence. So I really appreciate that. And tea definitely helps a lot.
Christian
Yeah, I love tea. think it’s such a gracious spirit, you know, so gentle and crazy about it. You know, like I love plant medicine. I’ve done Ayahuasca before, but these things are like, I’m ready for a level up now. It’s like, when I went to my first Ayahuasca experience, I honestly did it like,
Sydney Campos
It’s a little intense, yeah.
Ahahaha
Christian
Like I didn’t, was no like trauma that I was looking to heal. just wanted to experience the spirit. And it was very interesting because part of that experience was to understand that really I am living my best life, right? And the funny thing is, especially with my family and my wife and there was this other girl that I really connected with and
it brought up this whole conversation at home, right? About what we are building and how we’re treating each other. And yeah, of course, nothing is like, know, human spirit can always long for more. And, you know, there’s always something better in form or this and that, but like.
Sydney Campos
Wow.
Christian
Yes, you understand that.
Sydney Campos
Interesting. Yeah. Wow.
You are showing some new layers of yourself and yeah, that’s a great ally and a great tool. think that those kinds of medicine technologies can help people open up a lot and expand. And I also…
you know, know that there’s a lot of softer, more gentle kind of integrated ways that we can connect to source, especially now, but it often can take more, you know, practice. And I think some people, what I noticed happen a lot, and I’ve been facilitating, I’ve been facilitating for like the last 10 years and helping a lot of people integrate really complex, know, multi-dimensional experiences from plant medicines and frankly, like really challenging situations where parts of themselves will be fragmented off and just, it’s all.
the body can be super overwhelmed by those experiences. And then it can be really challenging to integrate and kind of come back fully in this reality in a centered embodied way. And so I, you know, for me personally, I just, love sobriety. I love to meet in really clear presence. And when we are supported with the tools and the practices that can be really simple, usually a combination of breath work, some kind of movement sound using our own voice, you know, intentionally.
toning, these kinds of things, we can drop into some of the deepest spaces that feel really psychedelic, but it’s from our own source. It’s from our own supply, you know, and then it’s the integration is implicit and it can be just ⁓ even more expansive, I think, actually, than working with some of these external entities that can have their own agenda that can take more effort in the long run to kind of, you know, clear out of your system so you can feel yourself.
Christian
Yeah, yeah, it makes a lot of sense, know? ⁓ medicine, again, it sounds off or I think it is advertised often as like the silver bullet, you know? And that’s just what people have been looking for and still will be looking for for many thousands of years, right? But yeah, where is that organic integration in? Yeah, that’s, yeah, I agree.
Sydney Campos
Yes, a quick fix, yes.
I actually
think a lot of these things are going to be not as common in the next few years because the planetary frequencies are increasing to such a level that people are not going to be, I mean, it’s not going to be as helpful to work with things that are, you know, kind of an external entity. There’s going to be such a stronger call to work with your own energy and to work with your own source connection. And it’s like the energy is speeding up to such a level where we are going to be required to really meet and
clarity, like there can’t be any interference or intermediaries where we’re headed, I would say in the next two to three years. So I actually see, ⁓ you know, a lot of people that have even been shamans and facilitators of these energies and medicines, they’re even stepping back. Their guidance, if they’re listening, and they’re not in an ego trip, if they’re listening, a lot of them are being guided to put the medicine down.
and to remember, to guide people into the remembrance of their own source and their own innate abilities that a lot of these medicines have tried to help, you know, ⁓ kind of open up those pathways for them. There’s going to be this big movement, bigger movement, think more visible in the next few years of people just saying, we don’t need the medicine, you are the medicine. So I think this is already happening, but I see it happening at a more mass level.
Christian
Yeah, I love that. And I think ultimately, if we’re able to really stay in our center about that we have access to source at all times, that just, I think is the biggest thing. And, you know, not that I’m there all the time, right? But like, we think like, I am
the medicine, I am the disease, I am the healing, I am the money, I am the stuff, like everything is it’s so hard to explain but it’s within, right?
Sydney Campos
It’s very
powerful, right? It can be overwhelming to behold oneself as being such a powerful being. And that is a capacity that we are called to develop within ourselves to allow that fully in and to fully radiate at that frequency, right? Of presence, of power. And there’s been a lot of conditioning we’ve been up against for centuries around that, around being powerful, really powerful beings, you know, with abilities, with direct connection to source and think about how different our society.
will be designed in all these different structures if more people are operating from that knowing.
And I’m not there all the time either yet, but that’s just part of the bridge that we’re all building right now. ⁓
Christian
in.
Exactly. And continuing to building the bridge, painting the picture and allowing people to see what’s actually possible and real, you know? Because again, you grow up in a society where you think you need to like pay for energy and things like that. You know, it’s like, oh yeah, of course, can’t be any different. It’s been like that for 500 years. Why would it be different now? You know? There’s so much more.
Sydney Campos
Yes.
Yeah, get ready. These next few years are gonna be very confronting for many people that are attached to those old ways and it can be, ⁓ you know, really shake, it can be like a big, I hear the word like earthquake, know, identity breakdown and just people really, it’s gonna be challenging if you haven’t built those. There’s a call for people to really build these capacities to know yourself, to work with your energy, to understand your energy, more of your purpose, your intuitive abilities.
Otherwise it’s terrifying. It’s like terrifying to be walking around out there basically in the dark waiting for someone to tell you what to do when all the systems are gonna be falling apart even more. So glad, you know, that’s why some of us are here. We’re like holding the flag, like I’m here. I’m ready when you are, when you want some help.
Christian
Wow. So tell us a little bit about the age of Aquarius. Because a lot of listeners ⁓ might not, I mean, I’m sure they’ve heard of it, right? But they still don’t quite know what it is. Is it some sort of new age or new times? Like another new year? I don’t know. Another year.
Sydney Campos
No!
I like to call it the now age. I don’t think I made that up, but just new age has a funny tone to it. ⁓ And the Aquarian age, I don’t really resonate with that term, but it reminds me of I practiced Kundalini yoga for a long time. And they always talk about the Aquarian age and these Aquarian frequencies and ⁓ all that aside, what I think you’re alluding to is this time that is upon us, which is the next, know, really it would be the next.
hundred year cycle, but we’re just at the very beginning, the next. ⁓ And really what’s important to talk about now is the next three years. So between now and 2028 is this major window that maybe some listening can feel where things have been speeding up. Energetics on the planet have been speeding up. You might feel an acceleration in your ability to manifest things. Like you think about something and then it appears.
You might feel a heightening of your intuitive and multidimensional abilities. You might have more memory coming in of, you know, your abilities and maybe what you’re here for or other lifetimes, things like that. You might have a accelerated rate at which you’re meeting people that feel very familiar beyond this life. ⁓ And some people may also be having this crisis, which is part of awakening, you know, welcome, where you really see how certain choices you’ve made no longer fit.
who you are really meant to be and how you’re meant to be serving and where are you not in integrity. And so ⁓ this timeframe is very exciting. It’s really 2027, a lot of different cultures will also allude to this time. And ⁓ I call it an energetic gateway where the planetary frequencies are increasing to such a level where it does feel like we make this collective jump in consciousness where we’re able to vibrate at such a higher, more efficient level.
This is all about efficiency, right? It’s like becoming more embodied, becoming more embodied in our spiritual capacities and abilities. And then being able to create in a more efficient way that which we are each uniquely here to create and manifest towards this collective goal of heaven on earth, I would say, or just a more harmonious, equitable world where we really take care of the planet, ourselves and each other. And we become more effective stewards of all the resources that we’ve been given here.
And then there’s disclosure as well of like, you know, we’re not alone in the universe. There’s other beings. There’s been a lot of conditioning around aliens and ETs and all of that kind of stuff. But it’s, I feel like there’s going to be full disclosure of like ships appearing and beings coming and you know, they’re already here, but just more like revealing themselves. And so think of the consciousness shift required in that sense when, you know, that’s going to bring up a lot of fear and
All kinds of things, just clearing all these illusions that have been programmed for centuries to keep people disempowered and in fear. so long story short, we’re going to have a lot of help, a lot of support, a lot of technology is going to be given back to humanity to restore things like free energy and cleaning up the ocean and different pieces of our environment.
And ⁓ it’s really exciting. And we have a choice to go the transhumanist AI robot route, which we already did in Atlantis. And I don’t think we’re allowed to do that again and repeat that. ⁓ Or to really see this technological advancement happening and then really choose to be more fully human, which is what we’re really meant to do. That was the whole point. To really activate our spiritual gifts and our unique human abilities that technology will never replicate.
So these next three years are very exciting, but it might be a crisis point for many who are essentially just called to clear out fear at the deepest levels. know, we can’t, when we’re called to vibrate in these higher frequencies, it’s all love and presence and it’s so clear. So any lower protective ⁓ densities, fear, shame, know, control, these are the bigger ones, they’re gonna get highlighted. They’re gonna be illuminated so that you can process them and…
Feel the feelings and let them go.
Christian
Wow, that’s so powerful. It’s also really powerful and empowering to listen to someone talk about it that way, you know, in terms of, yeah, being able to, yeah, really step into our power as human beings, you know, ⁓ and not continue thinking of self of this like sheep people continue existence, you know.
like, yeah. So let me ask you this, or for all the listeners here, the vision that you’ve been holding and stewarding and nurturing for the past decades of your life, that will be, people are trying to evolve and catch up to their version of their future, right?
How can we help them to align, to evolve?
Sydney Campos
It’s so different for all of us have different lessons and you know, but I would say the most simple is Let’s see. I’m just tuning in in real time here What’s most important to share with the listeners and everybody tuning in and really? Just desiring support and more alignment authenticity You know, my last book is all about this because that’s been my biggest
journey is authenticity and just really learning to be myself. It’s so vulnerable. It’s so simple to say, but I think it’s the hardest thing any of us can really aspire to do is just, they say, get out of the way of being who you are. Get out of the way. Stop getting in the way of what’s meant to happen. Like get out of the stream. Just be in the stream. Let things come. Allow, let go, trust. So simple. We hear it all the time.
But how, how do I surrender? So we’re talking about embodiment and this is a way of which we’re meant to work with the body to relax and like, whatever that means for you. We all have trauma, we all have stuff we’re called to let go of. And really I think it comes down to being open to support. We can’t do any of this alone. I mean, we can, I think, but not, I mean, it’s not as effective as when you’re.
working with others and connecting with authentic community where you can really practice being yourself and getting feedback and learning the different protocols, practices, techniques, you know, that help you feel good, that help you feel like yourself. So would say for anybody listening, you know, what are the practices, things that you love to do? Could be meditation, yoga, exercise, singing, dancing, whatever, painting, cooking, anything that you love.
where you feel in flow, you feel connected, you feel like yourself. And then how are you allowing yourself to do that more, to be in that frequency of your own ⁓ authentic being, know, really give, prioritizing that, I would say more than ever now. Cause when we’re in those states of presence and flow, we are inherently allowing those densities and kind of old imprints and trauma patterns, they’re dissolving. They’re kind of dissolving on their own. We don’t have to be so heavy about this processing and…
You know, it doesn’t have to be so intense when we are prioritizing more of those self-loving, you know, activities that really help us feel like we’re at home. So, and that’s a big shift in values, especially for people that are, you know, really invested in their work and making money and how they’re appearing and their influence and all this stuff we’re conditioned to care about. That takes us away from ourselves and these more intimate moments with ourselves.
And it can be really confronting because suddenly when you’re not performing and you’re not caring about what other people are thinking and you’re just enjoying yourself in the moment, there’s spiritual connection opening up. There’s awareness of certain feelings that you might have been avoiding. There might be some pain. There might be some things to experience which can feel confronting because when you feel them, then a part of your identity is going to fall away and you’re going to become more of who you really are. But that can be scary.
if you’re very attached to who you’ve been. So I find that it’s really helpful to have groups and friends and just, you know, support coaches, mentors, just, I have a whole team of support, right? Like that’s what I’ve required. And I think I just want to make that permission available to more people. Like you don’t need to do anything alone. Where we’re heading is going to get more intense and it’s good to resource up and really find those practices and support communities that can help you.
Christian
Yeah, yeah, I love that. Recently, my wife, said, you know, today, today’s a holiday. It’s where we’re to make it a holiday. It sounds so nice, you know, just just to be able to have a permission to just do whatever you want to do. Oh, my God. Even that is just such a big deal sometimes, at least for me. Like, oh, I don’t need to work today.
Sydney Campos
Mmm. ⁓
Yes. ⁓
Christian
I don’t need to like show up and produce and be my master and I can drop and I can actually sink into my spirit and explore what I actually want to do with my time here on planet earth. For me as a German.
Sydney Campos
Mmm.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly. Well, totally, yes. And I mean, I have so much conditioning, frankly, like to be a workaholic. Like I come from a family line of just people that were working so hard to survive, you know, and in poverty and just for many generations. And these are conditionings that we have operating at the DNA level.
Christian
Yeah.
Sydney Campos
You know, these are inherited traits that we bring through to survive. But then, you know, we’re in a world where we’ve never been safer. We’ve never had more abundance and resource. We’ve never had more technology to automate work that we no longer have to do. And, you know, we have so much more freedom. We can if we choose to allow ourselves to enjoy it. But that can be so confronting, you know, because there might be patterns also inherited around
improving oneself through work, which I’ve had to work through a lot in my own path, you know, like this inherited program of, you know, also service for some of us have come in, you we’ve come in as light beings and guides and healers, and there can be a program running with many healers I’ve seen, you know, and in myself of like, I have to save the world. I have to help everybody else. I have to give to everybody else. I have to help wake everybody else up first. And, and it can be so confronting to say, wait a minute, slow down.
Stop, actually stop it. You don’t owe anybody anything. You’re alive to simply be alive for you, to enjoy it, to actually have fun, to learn, to grow, to relax. Let go of the stress, let go of the worry, get off of the hamster wheel, the illusion of the hamster wheel that you have to do all these things to just be worthy of existing.
And this is what so much of our external world is reflecting to us, by the way. mean, social media, all of our economic capitalist structures are literally programming us all the time saying, you you have to do X, Y, Z just to live. And then the money system, I mean, the debt system, all these things. it’s just fascinating when back to our original point, if you imagine, you know, your own power and connecting to your own source, living more from this place of unconditional love and value.
within yourself, you are enough just because you are alive. Your presence is all that matters, like this is it. And then imagine how different our social structures would need to be if more people were operating from that place of like, wait a minute, we’re here to enjoy this world and take care of it and take care of ourselves. What are we doing?
Christian
Yeah, that’s something to put into practice more.
Sydney Campos
Yes, I know. Amen. Me too. It’s deeper refinement always. But also, I love…
Christian
I like
the past two in the US, you know?
Sydney Campos
yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah. But also what’s coming is I love the opportunity to have conversations like this, like more conversations around the future possibilities. And I loved your point of not talking too much about the past, you know, it’s like talking about the future and the vision and being more in this collective kind of manifestation, I think is another key piece that will support us and where we’re headed.
Christian
I love that. Thank you so much for sharing all that. I want to switch gears a little bit and I want to ask you about any, you know, type of businesses that you’ve started in the past, where did they come from, how are they connected to your purpose, to your heart imprint, how, yeah, tell us a little bit. How you made your purpose into also your…
Sydney Campos
No.
Christian
Dharma, your work, what you’re
Sydney Campos
Yeah,
livelihood. Yeah, well, let’s see. My journey started in media. So I built a, I worked in media in New York for years and then I built a PR agency that’s now a global agency. I exited that in 2016 after growing the team and we had an acquisition and that was also around the time, you my awakening was around 2011, 2012. And then, you know, so I’m working in this media agency, building this, this, you know, system.
Kind of to infiltrate a lot of what we’re talking about, like, wait a minute, in a capitalist society, the best way to actually change people’s minds and behaviors through media, through advertising, not through the law, not through policy, which had been some of my earlier aspirations when I was younger. I’m like, I’m gonna be a civil rights lawyer or something. And we got to change the system. then I’m in this media agency and then I’m also doing all these like kind of undercover healing trainings and learning about energy work and Akashic records.
psychic gifts are like popping off and working with energy healers and just having this rapid remembrance. And then in 2016, I left my agency and I created my own business and I moved to Bali and I similar to what maybe you mentioned, but I had an online platform where I was serving as a strategic advisor to startups as a marketing advisor, strategy ops, that kind of thing. And then also building my healing practice, which was always a mixture as it is now of
strategy, advisory, but also intuitive healing and, you know, multi-dimensional guidance. So I’m happy to say that’s more normalized now and people are more, you know, open to those kinds of integrations and like they see the value and talking about energy when it comes to business, but it wasn’t always like that. So it was just fun to reflect how things have really changed even in the last few years. And then I have had a few different startups. I created something in 2019 called Odyssey, which was a leadership convergence and the
kind of incubator for coherence and mastery within leaders, because I had this awareness and really guidance. All my ideas have come from intuitive guidance. You know, they’ve always been guided by source. And then I’ve, you know, done my best to get out of the way and let the idea come through. But it’s also been a learning of, you know, getting out of the way, letting my ego not attach, you know, the business isn’t about me, you know, these kinds of things. And it hasn’t always been, you know,
perfect. so Odyssey was a really big initiation for me. It was such a pure idea at the time, ahead of its time. But I brought 100 people together from all over the world, founders, investors, creatives, and also healers and artists. And we had a four day convergence, huge investment, massive production. And the convergence was all about, you what is the inner work that we need to do to actually be able to effectively collaborate.
and build what we say we want to build. We can’t really do what we’re here to do or even see what we’re here to do until we can listen to each other and actually listen to more of this intuitive guidance. Otherwise, we’re just going to keep creating things in the same old way, going in the circular loop of the mind and the ego with all this trauma. So it ended up being this incredible time. So many companies were created from that experience, new partnerships, relationships, but…
you it didn’t turn into this big company platform that I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be retreats and trainings and cohorts and all these things. And like even a branding agency, conscious branding. And, but it ended up being one of the biggest initiations for me to understand that, wow, I can’t talk about all this stuff yet until I’m more embodied in myself. You know, I conceptually really understood what was needed to get to where we need to go. But ultimately that whole experience showed me, wait a minute, I’m really falling short.
of where I need to be as a leader to be able to effectively facilitate these kinds of spaces and embody what I’m talking about. And so it was not easy. felt like a dark night of the soul started after that. I went was sent to Hawaii and and then COVID started. So I was basically like locked in on Maui, which is not so bad, but very isolating. I was alone. I was had to be had to like stop everything and slow down and really feel a lot.
for two years and I just spent a lot of time in nature, a lot of time alone out of the noise and busyness of New York and LA and traveling for years. it was one of the hardest times of my life. that’s, but that’s where I really changed. I changed, got so much more clarity in terms of what I was meant to do. And then another idea came to start another company that was a social media company to create a new template for conscious social media called Ascend.
I worked on that for three and a half years, raised a ton of capital, built an incredible product, got thousands of people on it. ⁓ But it also felt like it was a bit ahead of its time. We were asking people to maybe think a little bit more critically than they were ready to and to be more ⁓ co-creative in the social media process. And then also my business partnership was really an initiation. learned, you know, there’s really so many challenges in that. know, having a business with someone else is like a marriage.
And the company is like your baby and it can bring up so much trauma, so much stuff to work through. And so I love to support founders in this and just, you know, to like make that conscious and then, you know, to be able to effectively work together, can be so challenging. So that was a three and a half year venture and all the meanwhile, I’m working with clients, running online programs, retreats, advising, you know, but so that was.
I closed that in October, 2023 and then another dark night of the soul, know, like, okay, ego death again. Who am I without that thing that I thought was defining me in the world in some way. And then that set off this whole other process ⁓ from October, 2023 till now, which has been kind of a return to working with other teams and helping to build other products, not so much standing up my own things for right now. And becoming in as more of an advisory, you know, ⁓ strategic support and
co-founder or chief of staff, that kind of thing, but not so much like standing at my own idea. I’m really just working on kind of these deeper, frankly, what we talked about already, like these deeper integrations of like, you really having healthier boundaries with my time, with my energy. There’s a deeper healing happening for me around my relationship to money and resource and value. And so I’m really grateful to be.
Christian
Thank you.
Sydney Campos
in service in this way now and that’s afforded me a lot of space, you know, which we need sometimes, especially if we’ve been going at like a billion miles an hour as a founder.
Christian
Yeah. Yeah. I hear you. For me, I empathize with that in terms of the tea company that I have. And I’m not sure why I bring this up because I keep talking about tea. It’s like forefront in my mind currently. it’s it’s something that just keeps me, yeah, keeps me engaged and alive. Like tea, and tea, even like right now what you said, it’s like…
Sydney Campos
It’s I probably need some more tea, so thank you.
Christian
Tea, I feel, is that medium that anyone can connect with. That’s the cool thing. Tea doesn’t need to be with the next level branding agency, Love Pixel, that you might need, that only 5 % of the population might resonate with. But tea is something that everyone can resonate with on their own level. That’s why I think it’s so powerful, because it can touch so many people.
Sydney Campos
Hmm.
Yeah, beautiful. It’s a very universal language. I had a client a couple years back that’s one of the biggest tea companies in the world. And they’re actually one of the cleanest, like greenest producers. I won’t say the brand right now, but basically I learned a lot about that whole industry and just, you know, part of what you’re talking about, how tea is really this universal language. Think of all the countries, cultures, you know, that are, are engaging with this as almost this ritual, even if we don’t call it that it’s this really ceremonial.
ritual that billions of people are partaking in every day. So I love learning, I love hearing you speak about this. And feel like I’m called to integrate this again more into my life at a time, especially when I lived in Hawaii. I had a tea table, I would serve tea more. And I’m why did I let that go? What happened? Time to get that back.
Christian
Yeah, it’s a wonderful little thing. again, it’s this, it’s so many layers at the same time. It’s physical, it’s visceral, like it’s spiritual. Like it’s incredible. I think it’s just like, again, like the integration of like, okay, now I’m going to make my little tea. What do I feel like? Do I feel like green tea? Do I feel like black tea? Right. Do feel like, ⁓ and from there,
trying to make the process as conscious as you can. And I’m not standing there every day like this, like, mmm, like this, you know, I had five minutes before this podcast, I’m like, I’m going to make tea, put hot water in here, like work on me while I sit and drink and talk and you understand, it’s like, it’s so flexible. Like it’s such incredible, not, you know, like with energy work, you need a lot of intention, right? And presence. With tea,
Sydney Campos
Aww.
Christian
The good thing is, of course, the more attention you put in it, more the effect you’re gonna feel, right? But even like this, before the podcast, I sit down and make this, it’s still with me, you know what mean? It’s still working.
Sydney Campos
Yeah, it’s a great way to connect with your intuition also and just again, self-loving ritual and I love, I love all of this. I’m going to take this into consideration and maybe get my new little tea table set up.
Christian
I love that. Well, we’re coming towards the end of the episode. We have about four or five minutes left and I just wanted to ⁓ give it over to you and ask what your vision for the new world is. And yeah, I think that that is the question.
Sydney Campos
Thank you. I invite everyone to take a nice deep breath with me and feel free to like tune in for this answer for yourself as well. I feel like that’s so much more fun to co-create and I’m gonna actually just really tune in with my guides and guidance to see what is alive today. Every day can be so different when it comes to this possibility, field of possibility.
What is the vision for the future that I hold in my heart today?
Imagine a crystalline planet with clean oceans, trees growing, plants thriving, people growing their own food, shining vibrantly, radiating from the inside this feeling of pure unconditional love and vibrancy, vitality, strength, harmony, peace. It’s beautiful. Imagine a world where you walk by
you in every single person you pass is just like a luminescent, beautiful light. And you feel this knowing that they are reflecting you. And there’s this sense of innate connection and support and a sense of responsibility to take care.
And just feeling this presence and love and support, safety, feeling the safety to be fully alive, fully powerful, fully activated, fully on purpose, aligned, empowered, creative, curious. Nobody is afraid to share their truth. Everyone is sharing their truth and expressing their authentic calling. Everyone is sharing. There’s no more filtering or editing or
like manipulation, it’s just complete clarity and truth. A lot more silence and moving slowly and just really clear, being able to see everything and everyone really clearly and having such clear resonance of where you’re guided to go and guided, you know, the right time to be at the right place. All is provided, all is already here. All that you need ever again is always provided is always here. It’s already here.
hidden in plain sight, just waiting for you to open up and remember and receive.
Yeah, and there’s just so much fun. Like we’re living life to have fun and enjoy and just like feeling that ecstatic joy, but in this grounded embodiment, like present, fully here, not disassociated and like we floating around, but embodied, powerful, grounded, and so ecstatic, so grateful. So let’s do it.
Christian
Let’s do it. Thank you so much for playing your heart, sharing your wisdom, being on here and giving us a reminder of what it means to be more embodied for ourselves.
Sydney Campos
⁓ this is neat.
Thank you so much. Thank you for your example and the bridges you’re building as well. I’m really honored to co-create with you.
Christian
Yes, yeah. Thank you so much. ⁓ Let us know where people can find you if they feel inspired to reach out, explore more.
Sydney Campos
Mm-hmm.
Sure. Yeah, I have a retreat coming up in Bali. We talked about Bali a few times. This will be my fourth time hosting there. So I bring intimate groups there for initiation and a deeper embodiment, power and purpose. I go to temples and just all the local spots since I’ve lived there for years. I have a lot of special connections and we really have a very sacred, like local experience. So that’s in January, January 3rd through 11th, Bali Beloved, very small group.
coming together for that. And you can find all the details of how to connect with me otherwise on my website, which is sydneycampos.com. And you can check out my books. I also have a podcast I’m rebooting after a hiatus since I closed that last company. It’s called Visionary Souls, and I’m really excited about the new guest coming on for that. And yeah, please reach out. I do online offerings occasionally too, so my newsletter is a great resource to stay in touch.
Christian
Beautiful. Thank you so much, Sydney. It’s been an honor, a pleasure, and yeah, it’ll be remembered in my…
Sydney Campos
Yay!
Aw, thank you.
Christian
Thank you.