Today we’d like to introduce you to Melody Beuzelin.
Hi Melody, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My parents are immigrants, mom’s from Germany, dad’s from France and we moved to the US from France when I was three. Their big vision for me was to have the American Dream: get good grades in school so I could get into a good University, then graduate and get a good job. So, I followed this track thinking that’s just what you do. I pursued writing and communications, always knowing I was a storyteller at heart. When I graduated Florida State University, I quickly moved to Orlando, FL, and started my career, it was in a massive corporate headquarters with big glass windows, and I thought — this is it! I did it! I’m a fancy corporate writer and marketer! While I learned a lot and loved the people I worked with, I felt like I was missing something. I wanted to break rules, be creative and bring some wild ideas to life — something that the narrow lane of corporate America rarely welcomed. I realized I wanted to roll up my sleeves and build something myself, or at least be a part of something that had my fingerprints all over it. When I left, I thought it was the biggest mistake of my life. What had I done? Was this too ambitious of a leap?
After bouncing around a few industries and not finding what I was searching for, I eventually landed at a scrappy startup. I went from working in a department of 70 people to being employee #2, and this startup was in the yoga/health/wellness space, where I got to create content, oversee a blog and even do product and brand development. I had always loved yoga but only for the fitness aspect of it, I didn’t know much beyond plank pose and downdog. I also had no idea about the content I was supposed to be writing and editing. So, I did what any reasonable person would do, I jumped headfirst into a 10-month, 300-hour yoga teacher training program. Once a month, Saturday and Sunday I met with a group of students to study and practice yoga. I came out of teacher training with new perspective and purpose. I never did the training with the intention to teach, but I found myself teaching at local studios on the weekends, and that’s when I started writing my own meditations. I wrote about my experiences in articles and on social media, published yoga flows and meditations on YouTube.
So began my parallel of two lives, Melody the professional writer/content creator and Melody the meditation/yoga teacher. I launched a content creation business in 2018 as a side hustle and little by little started building up my client base. After dozens of meetings listening to client briefs and the stress associated with the business side of their world, I saw a trend: stress, anxiety and depression were so common in the workplace that it eats away at the wellbeing of talent from the entry-level to the c-suite. I could speak this language, and I could help. So, in early 2020, I launched my meditation practice with a goal of helping individuals nurture their wellbeing through three different pillars: 1. their inner wellness and self-care 2. their relationships and partnerships three their purpose, career and aspirations. And it only gained momentum as the pandemic struck and authentic connection became a focal point in (now virtual) offices. As I continue to navigate the world of healing and business, my goal is to help businesses and individuals step into their potential and own their wellness 🙂
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The road is never smooth nor linear! For so long, I tied so much of my identity to my career. I validated myself based on someone else’s performance review of me. That scrappy startup I worked for three years to help build from the ground up? It eventually folded. I questioned my decisions, my self-worth and took a toll on my mental health. But it was in that unraveling that I learned the most about myself, my fragile identity and began to rebuild it on my terms. Some days my world would crumble around me and I felt like I had to start from scratch, but every day, I’d get up, put my feet on the ground and do it all over again. Along the way, I lost other jobs, crumbled relationships and had to dig really deep to muster up the courage to believe in myself. But that’s the thing about courage, you can still be brave with shaky knees.
As you know, we’re big fans of Passion Savage. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
When I was in University, the job title “social media manager” didn’t even exist yet. So, I thought I’d make up a new occupation that blends my work and brings the concept to life, sp I call it “Lifestyle Creation.” Essentially, I work with businesses to help them tell their story with content, and I help individuals find their purpose through meditation and inner work. I’m in the process of splitting the two, the content creation side into “Passion Savage Media” so I can have two clear focuses. The content creation side is pretty self-explanatory, but my passion project is the meditation side of my business. It starts with a first session, where we do a deep dive to help peel back your emotional layers one by one, skipping the small talk and really understanding your blocks and challenges through what I call a 360 multi-sensory profile. Then, based on that initial conversation (usually about 20-25 minutes) I lead you through a custom mediation that I’ve created uniquely for you. After the meditation, we have a brief discussion of anything that came up, then I teach a quick exercise that you can take and apply in your everyday life. Then, I close by giving an independent practice assignment, kind of like meditation “homework” and we schedule our next session which follows the format of 1. discussion of independent practice and what came up the past week 2. meditation focusing on one of the three pillars of wellness 3. closing discussion and independent practice assignment.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
1. Curiosity – Always inquiring more and wanting to explore into people’s “why” and what motivates them 2. Listening – We all want to be heard and understood. A big part of my work is receiving individuals as they are, without judgment, and not trying to “fix” them or “heal” them. I believe people are whole as they are, my goal is to help them navigate their blocks with grace and share the tools for managing their overwhelming thoughts and emotions 3. Passion – I believe in everything you do should light you up, or you shouldn’t do it. Sure, there’s exceptions like necessary life responsibilities like taxes that most people probably aren’t leaping out of bed to do, but the job you have, the people you choose to keep around you and the things you love to do, those should all be a “fuck yes! When you have an intrinsic motivation to do something, that fuel will never run out, it becomes as important as water for you. Life should be a “fuck yes.” 🙂
Pricing:
- 85/session
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: passionsavage.com
- Instagram: melodyinternational
Image Credits:
Image Cred for Planl knee to elbow: YogiApproved Image Cred for Belly Breathing
