Change your mind, change your life is not a new concept and it’s not as easy as it sounds, as many have discovered. Yet it is absolutely possible if you are willing to do the work.
That’s why Leah Steele, known widely as The Wealth Witch, takes a holistic approach when working with women who want to break the bonds of financial slavery and create a future that is in line with their dreams and their vision.
“Call it magic, call it art, whatever works for you,” says Leah Steele, who stands by her success and the women who have followed her programs and changed their lives.
“Money is simply energy, and as women, we are brought up to fear it. The gender gap is closing but there are still so many who are held back by tradition or conventions that don’t serve us,” explains Leah.
Challenging male dominance
Leah says that in the old days she would probably have been burned at the stake for her heretical attitudes and teachings. “Me and all the other healers and coaches, spiritual advisors, and any women who challenged the dominance of men in society,” she jokes.
“The spiritual community is shunned, made fun of, made to seem like they’re crazy, hysterical heretics. Because when we, as spiritual people, are accessing our true power, we cannot be controlled. We are easily able to see through the manipulation. And that makes us the most dangerous community to the current power structure.”
Strange that the majority of those branded witches and burned were women, and even today there is enormous pressure on women to conform, to be the primary caregivers, to give up their dreams, and to operate as second-class citizens.
“This is financial slavery, an absolute difference that exists based truly on gender. Women who succeed in life give back to their communities, create generational wealth, and everyone benefits. I show women how to break the mold, how to change the way they see money and realize that what holds them back isn’t real, it’s perceived and it can change,” she says.
Passionate, vibrant, determined, Leah lives in Bali with her husband and children, a long way from her birthplace in Salt Lake City, Utah.
An only child, her single mother worked tirelessly and spent her spare hours studying. Leah lost herself in books, she got her first job at 13 and realized early on that her ticket to freedom was financial independence.
She left school early to go to college where she majored in International Business and Asian Studies. Her first job was working with a Japanese import-export company before she moved to New York City and entered the world of publishing and began to work with top clients.
She then went to work with FIFA in sports marketing for the 1999 Women’s World Cup and got her first taste of entrepreneurial life.
Seeking financial freedom
While she was flying high in the corporate world, her mother’s words repeated in her mind. “She always told me I could achieve anything and I realized that being in a job, working to make money for other people wasn’t the path for me. I wanted financial freedom, I wanted to make my own decisions and I felt like I was still thinking small,” she explains.
She moved back to Salt Lake City and partnered with her mother to expand her business of addiction treatment centers. “I was married, my children went to private schools, I had money and still I felt like something was missing, there was a lack of balance in my life and my marriage began to suffer,” she says.
She journals daily and this is a key component of the guidance she gives to women who want to change their life.
“If you write down your intentions, your feelings, your experiences, you begin to absorb the information more deeply. You start to see the patterns, the things that hold you back, you begin to shape your dreams and from there you can shape your reality,”
Wealth, she explains, is different for all women; it goes far beyond a healthy bank balance. “It encompasses your health, your spirituality, your belief system, and your relationships; in order to achieve real wealth in life, you have to find your purpose and know you are on the right path. This is why I call myself a spiritual business coach, all aspects of life need to be in balance to achieve true happiness,” she says.
Ironically losing everything was what finally set her free. “Both of our companies collapsed within months of each other. The multi-million dollar businesses we built, the house, the cars, the trappings of wealth all dissolved, and that was my wake-up call,” she recalls.
Where others would fold, Leah made a life-changing decision to start working with women, using all her experience and her skills to start a coaching business. Shortly after, she packed up her family, her husband, and kids and moved to Bali in Indonesia where she continued working with clients and built a global audience.
Creating opportunities for women
“Ultimately I had to go through a lot of healing myself, it was something I had always been interested in but suddenly the path was clear for me, I was driven to create opportunities for women and brought all I knew in my heart to create a new path for myself, that would bring about life-changing transformation for other women,” she says.
Bali was never on the cards but by a strange twist of fate, both she and her husband heard the call and followed their intuition. The move has paid off big time for both of them as they live parallel and complementary lives that have brought them wealth and happiness and time with their children.
“I went through a process called The Spiral that was created by Dane Tomas to clear my emotional baggage and conditioning. It was transformative. I became a Spiral Practitioner and became obsessed with deconstructing programming, conditioning, and trauma surrounding money, wealth, and currency. As soon as I got to Bali, my business exploded like never before. I started consistently making over $25,000 a month, which was incredible at that stage of the business. Now, years later I have developed my own modality Emotional Resonance Clearing that I use to help my clients deconstruct their money stories and traumas. ”
Steele maintains that women must own their ability to acquire wealth. Across the world, women are changing the status quo, no longer willing to abdicate responsibility to men. It is happening in households and in business. Her advice to women who are yet to embark on the journey that liberated Steele and so many of her followers is that while it may seem insurmountable, living a soul-aligned life, a life of self-mastery and abundance is possible.
Her popular Wealth Witch Podcast guides women through their awakening, “I call money the gateway drug to spiritual wellness and believe that all women are worthy and deserving of living the life they deeply desire.”
She is about to re-launch her signature course, Ouroboros, a cutting-edge wealth repatterning program that helps people shed their emotional conditioning and limiting beliefs around money. “Money either controls you, or you learn how to leverage and understand it to create wealth in all areas of your life,” she tells her followers.
Firmly following her own advice, she has built a life of purpose that aligns with her personal ideals. She collaborates with other women, she raises her children mindfully, she and her husband partner with purpose, and the wealth she attracts is a natural extension of the work she loves.
Taking back control for women
“It’s time for women everywhere to take back control over their lives, their futures, their happiness, and their financial freedom. The days of slavery are over, it’s time to wake up,” she tells us.
Ironically relationships can grow and thrive as women take this journey to create freedom and wealth. “These are not mutually exclusive, strong women and strong men can co-exist, finding balance in every area of life should strengthen the bonds we have, but it won’t always work,” she says.
Life is about taking on the challenges, changing your mindset will affect those around you. For Leah Steele, it took a total collapse of her foundations to steer her here and every area of her life suddenly makes sense. She is driven but she has finally found the balance she knew was hers for the taking and she plans on uplifting as many women as she can on her journey to change lives and free women everywhere.