[00:00:00] Sheridan: if your nervous system is dysregulated or perceives a threat, you're in a fight or a flight or a freeze or a fawn response. Everything that you're experiencing is not reality. You're not seeing it through the actual lens of what is occurring. So before we even look at anything, it's, are you regulated?
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My guest this week is Sheridan Ruth. From being stripped of every strand of hair in her body to losing her ex to suicide, three weeks after breaking up, Sheridan was forced to use trauma healing to sustainably build her business.
While there are other trauma-informed embody-based practitioner coaches in the industry, none of them do it the way she does by combining body-based tools, the nervous system, and business strategy. Sheridan helps anxious perfectionists, people-pleasing, and burned-out entrepreneurs, combine the nervous system with business strategy to increase profit and decrease anxiety.
Even when traditional methods haven't worked. We had such an amazing conversation talking a lot about her early diagnosis at the age of seven with an autoimmune disease, the impact that had on her, and also just how she was able to create this business that she loves through her own experience and the modalities that she has studied.
She was just someone that I connected with the second we started talking, even before we hit record. I loved our conversation and I think you will as well. Take a listen.
Sheridan, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm so excited to have our conversation.
[00:03:01] Sheridan: Yeah, this might sound a little bit, I don't know, cheesy, but I can already feel everyone who's here kind of listening and you and it feels incredibly grounded. And so I can feel that today's conversation is going to be probably very grounding to both you and me and everybody listening.
[00:03:22] Aneta: I love that. Yeah. It's so interesting just talking before we hit record because you and I have never had the chance to meet yet. And sometimes we just make these connections within a few minutes and I'm like, this is going to be so great. I can't wait to see where the conversation goes.
[00:03:40] Sheridan: Yeah, it's funny because one of my clients said with me, your podcast, and I listened to maybe a little bit of it. I don't listen to a lot of podcasts at the moment. And I was like, This woman is wonderful.
[00:03:54] Aneta: That is so sweet. Thank you. There are so many podcasts and I wish I could listen to everybody's and just support folks because I love this medium. I just think it's such a beautiful gift to be able to listen in on these intimate conversations that people have, especially when they're so authentic genuine, and real.
Because everything else is just curated, right? It goes through filters on social media and it goes through other things. And here you have two people just having a conversation.
[00:04:26] Sheridan: Yeah, that is a really good point. I find when I'm listening to podcasts, probably you and probably our audience that I've reached this point in my life. I think I saw you share something about this today. I'm not sure where I have to be discerning about what I take in.
And there's much. And this is just my pet peeve for the personal development industry. So let's just dive into it. There's so much content on the internet that is mostly concerned with selling you the idea that there is something to fix inside and magically. Their service program or product is that thing that's going to fix what's wrong.
And I find a lot of podcasts can sometimes be a little bit fear and shame-based. And so sometimes it can be nice to go into a conversation with a host that you trust that, isn't going to dysregulate you and pull you into a place where you're like, no, I'm processing what I was hearing on that podcast. And sometimes conversations between two people can be for a little bit, like more flowing and less of that marketing into something.
[00:05:44] Aneta: Yeah.
[00:05:45] Sheridan: And more, it just feels more open sometimes. I don't know. Yeah.
[00:05:50] Aneta: I think so too. Sometimes it seems very scripted or intentional, in a way, and one of the gifts of podcasting for me has been just being so present with people even though you can't see sometimes on these as we're recording right now, you can't see a really good image of the other person because it's streaming, but just being able to be so present and connected I think it's helped me be a better listener even normally in everyday life because sometimes we're always trying to do something else, but you don't, if you're not scripted, you can't do that. Like you're all in.
[00:06:28] Sheridan: 100%. And this is actually what I appreciate about this is that you and I aren't going in with a script. I've been on other podcasts where it brings a lot of safety and groundedness to the host to go in with a script and I'm happy to go with it. But for me, I'm just so much more intuitive and spontaneous and I want to go everywhere so yeah, it's fun. It's good.
[00:06:53] Aneta: I am curious to get to know you and your background a little bit more because I do follow you on Instagram, but I want to hear more about your background and you can start and share whatever you think is most relevant.
[00:07:07] Sheridan: I think for our listeners, we're all here because there's this part of us that believes in and values the width of your life, living all of the experiences in it. If I'm going to share what's relevant to that, we have to go back to when I was seven years old and I was at the hairdresser and everybody started huddling around me.
It's a rainy day and I can feel cold fingers on my scalp and we all start realizing, Oh, Sheridan is losing her hair. And my story is this one of really big width. I was even reflecting on it this morning because I'm observing a lot of people struggling with their mental health at the moment.
And as a result, their physical health. And I've gone from that dark. I was diagnosed with alopecia areata, which is an incurable autoimmune hair loss. I plummeted into a really deep depression and abusive relationship. It was dark. I have not many memories from that period of my life, just because of how difficult it was. And then we have the flip side where now I'm here and very genuinely it's the best it's ever been and it's amazing and I have so many of these little pinch me moments where I'm like, it gets to be this good.
I am coaching and teaching nervous system regulation, bodily awareness, wellness, and things that support people with their mental health. But more importantly, for me, at least, is that I'm teaching it to individuals who are interested in doing good things in the world and they're providing solutions and they're in business or they're in startups or they're practitioners or service providers, and I'm doing it with honestly, quite a lot of happiness and joy to the point where even that can feel isolating a little bit. Sometimes being very honest about it, like being the one that's doing well and celebrating, and in that, what feels like success for me, moments are seeing that other people are struggling where it can feel a little bit isolating.
So just being transparent about that, but yeah. The story is I was diagnosed with yoga saved my confidence. I was extremely lacking in confidence. I found yoga had a great tragedy. My ex-husband passed away by suicide and went into deep complex PTSD. And, I tried traditional therapy, it made my symptoms worse. I tried somatic therapy, and body-based therapies, and everything started falling together.
[00:09:52] Aneta: Wow. Thank you for sharing
[00:09:54] Sheridan: It Just gave you a lot.
[00:09:54] Aneta: Story there. No, it was a lot what was it like being at the age of seven and losing your hair? Did you feel different?
[00:10:03] Sheridan: It was curious because, in my being, I didn't think it was a big deal. I didn't care about that very innocent child's likeness, it was like, not a big deal. I don't understand why all the adults are worried about this. And then that was confusing because all the adults were very worried and they were working very hard to treat it and it led to a lot of very uncomfortable doctor's appointments and it left my psyche with this understanding that there's something wrong. So there's that part of me now that is always holding that there's something wrong with me that I need to fix because that's what I learned around that very formative age. So it was confusing
[00:10:44] Aneta: Yeah. Are there other symptoms or anything else that comes, with having your autoimmune disease?
[00:10:50] Sheridan: For a lot of people there are but for me, it's just I have weak nails. I'm really lucky. Yeah.
[00:10:58] Aneta: That's wonderful. That's good. So you shared a lot of challenging incidences. So you said, you started working with somatics what was that introduction to somatics and how did that help you compared to some of the more traditional maybe therapy that you were experiencing?
[00:11:17] Sheridan: Yeah at the beginning it was very simple. I was teaching yoga. I was going to yoga and the only time that I felt okay was when I was on the yoga mat. Then that moment in Shavasana or certain little moments, I would have these, it felt like I was ringing something out of my body and I was practicing a lot of yoga, but I could feel like, that feeling or that memory, I would have a flashback and it felt like, oh, this is painful and I'm crying, but it's not scary.
I feel like something is moving through me. And I was curious about that. So it just started there. And then it landed. I found one of my mentors who I ended up working with and later on, who taught me a lot of emotional embodiment. We share a practice that we got from a meditation teacher in Austria, and we just sat for many hours in meditation, witnessing, allowing emotions to process, embodying emotions, and learning about emotions.
And through that space and that dedication and having somebody there be like, you're going to sit with that longer. You're going to sit with the emotion longer. I began to unlock all of them, one, the emotions started dissipating and my symptoms started dissipating, but two, I began to unlock this deep knowing inside that was extremely beautiful.
[00:12:45] Aneta: I love how so many of us find our way into our spiritual journey and path and healing journey through yoga. It's just amazing. Of course, it's been around for so many years. And so how old were you when you got certified to teach?
[00:13:00] Sheridan: Don't tell anyone this, but I was teaching before I was certified.
[00:13:06] Aneta: You're making confessions already. When you started teaching.
[00:13:11] Sheridan: I was probably about, I would have been, so my ex passed away when I was 24 and I began teaching that year. But I didn't get certified until I was almost 25. So within the same year, but yeah,
That's amazing. And when did you make the shift to starting to create the business that you have today?
Honestly, so much of this has not been any of my choice. I didn't even choose to work with entrepreneurs or founders or startups. I didn't choose to do this online. I had in the back of my mind, I was like, I'm teaching yoga. I probably should put stuff online, because like I might want to move back to Australia. I was living in Columbia. That would be an intelligent thing to do up until then. I had lots of small business experience and sales experience, entrepreneurial experience, and lots of different endeavors. And what forced me to build what I have now is COVID.
[00:14:11] Aneta: Wow. Okay. So tell me more and tell me maybe all the details of your business too. I know you work with entrepreneurs. I know that it's a really interesting business model. You're incorporating a lot of different modalities, so maybe share just a little bit more of how that came to be.
[00:14:26] Sheridan: Yeah. So what happened was, I was teaching yoga. We went into lockdown. I decided, okay, I'll just bring the yoga classes online. At the time I was also working in finance and that fell apart as well, for different reasons, not necessarily because of COVID. It wasn't a good workplace. It was a toxic workplace environment.
And so that fell apart and I was like, okay, cool. But I guess yoga is what we're living off of now I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to make this business. And so we're online and I'm trying to figure out how to do this business thing and people are coming to me and they're like, can I get coaching?
And I was like, sure. Okay. Yeah, we can do that. But can you help me with like self trust my hair loss and my body image? I'm like, yeah, okay, we can do that. And so I had this combination of things organically growing, but this desire and need to have them grow quicker because honestly, I wanted the income and I wanted to do that work.
And, we're locked down and I'm moving forward. And I'm like, okay, cool. I hired a coach. I did things. I posted on social media. I'm doing all of the things. I did all of the things. It just felt like I was pushing a boulder up a hill and I was exhausted. And then like I was like yeah, that's working.
Okay. That didn't work. Okay, great. Okay. It feels like nothing is working. I may as well just quit. This isn't helping. And then I'd sign a new client. And it was just very confusing. And I remember I was sitting. And I was just exhausted. It looked like everyone knew what they were doing. I felt like there was something wrong with me.
And I was in the shower one day and I was like, screw it. I can't do this anymore. I cannot do this anymore. I'm so exhausted. And I feel like I'm never going to get anywhere and I'm trying all of the things. And I'm not sure if it's my mindset or if it's my body or if it's my marketing or if it's, I don't know. I'm going to go apply for a job and I'm in the shower and I was just so tired and I was still very much healing from my trauma. And I remember being like, okay, great. Now I have to get up and go get out of the shower and apply for a job. Wonderful. I didn't even know if I could do that because I'm just so over this.
And, I was like, okay, there are some somatic trauma therapy tools that I'd learned because I'd recently done a trauma therapy training. Okay. I guess we'll use the tools. So I did breathe, awareness, and body up. All right, up, walk to my laptop. And as I'm opening the laptop, I'm like, wait a second.
Why don't I just do that to everything that I'm struggling with in entrepreneurship, instead of trying to, whatever I'm having a struggle with, I go to somebody else's opinion or their advice, or I try to say things using that formula. What if every time I felt a little bit of stuckness, I just did that?
And I was like, okay screw it. Let's just try it. And I did, and I can't explain how it happened, but I can, I just, kept doing that, taking action, regulate, find what was happening inside, take action, regulate, find what was happening inside, take action. Over time, I did the thing that everybody wanted to do at the time, which was to have a fully booked coaching practice.
And be speaking in guest programs and have group programs and on one and consulting and all that stuff. And people kept coming to me and they were like Sheridan, how did you do that? And I was teaching hair loss coaching. I was teaching yoga therapy and generalized anxiety as well as supporting people with relationship OCD.
And they kept coming into the community. They're like, Sheridan, how did you do this? I don't understand. I was like, I just did this stuff. And they were like, okay, can you mentor me? And I was like, okay, sure I can mentor you. And I found that through working with these individuals, my brain and my skills are better suited for practitioners and entrepreneurs than they are in just the mental relationship.
I'm good at that, but I'm also really good at the strategy side of things. And I enjoy that a lot. And so the body-based business methodology was formed where it's just a three-step practice that I teach all of my clients and they go and they master it. And then they apply it to all of their business decisions from something as small as an email to as big as what niche am I doing and beautifully, they've seen a lot of success and I've seen a lot of success. And that's how we ended up here.
[00:19:06] Aneta: Wow. I love that you listened to that voice within. That nudge, whatever it is that said, wait a second. Maybe I don't need to apply for a job. I can do this differently. And you're able to pull on the training that you had. Can you walk us through the three steps? Because I'm fascinated by this.
[00:19:27] Sheridan: Yeah. So they're fairly simple, but in each one, there's a lot of nuance. The first one is regulation. And it's very simple it's that if your nervous system is dysregulated or perceives a threat, you're in a fight or a flight or a freeze or a fawn response. Everything that you're experiencing is not reality.
You're not seeing it through the actual lens of what is occurring. So before we even look at anything, it's, are you regulated? Sometimes we can't get to full regulation. There's a little bit of lingering anxiety or pain, but can we get pretty close? I have a PDF that I share with everybody.
It's free on ways to regulate without a lot of privacy space and time. It could be looking outside of your window, going for a walk, or having a glass of cold water. The second I call the pillar trauma healing, it's a somatic inquiry into what is being awakened inside of me that is causing this reaction or what is true about me that I need to keep in mind.
So I have a client who messaged me and he was like, I've realized that I'm burning out again. We began working together because he burnt out and he said, I can't build this company. The way that I did last year because I will burn out again and it's going to affect my health.
I need your help. And it's been really good. We've done a wonderful job and things have been calm, but yesterday's messages, he's like, I'm noticing that I'm getting towards that this is an early warning sign. And so in that example, the trauma healing aspect of it would be to go inside and look at the part of him that pushes him to achieve at the expense of his well-being.
And then we have two options. One, we can unburden and heal and release that pain. But that's a long-term process and we never want to get rid of that tendency inside because there is an intelligence inside of that. So we understand that part, and then we apply it to the third pillar, which is inspired action and protocols.
That means if we know that he has this tendency, then we need to make sure that we're building his business, the way that it operates, who reports to him or his lifestyle, what he does during the day, the types of exercise that he's doing so that we're calming that fiery essence inside. And we're not putting him in places where his tendencies and fears will take over.
And so it's like inspired action. So it's okay. What's the next best step? And then how do I set up a structure? So that I don't have to think about regulating or think about healing or think about what the next best step is.
[00:22:22] Aneta: And what are some of those examples of structures? Are they like routines and practices that people put in?
[00:22:27] Sheridan: Yeah, I think of it as there's self, there's admin, and then there's team stuff, right?
Self might be like maybe what you do. I wake up early so that I can feed into myself before I feed into other people. The admin might be, I have so many thoughts, but I'm just using what's fresh here is that admin might be, I don't handle certain emails.
I don't look at the reviews. I have one of the things that I brought in recently. It was like, I want to keep an eye on my analytics, but, it dysregulates me to think that I need to be on top of it. So I asked my assistant to do that. Can you just keep an eye on these numbers and tell me when they're at a certain place? It can be very simple. I think the one where it gets more difficult is the relationship one. What are my tendencies in relationships, whether that be with clients, whether that be in sales, or whether that be in marketing, because that is a relationship and how would I change it?
So if I'm afraid of being judged and that's why I haven't made progress towards something do I need to do videos on Instagram? Maybe I do a podcast instead, or If I'm just really good at connecting with people, but I'm not good at writing marketing content, how do I create more spaces where I just connect with people?
Okay, if I know that I'll use myself as an example, I could be really fiery and very direct when I want something in relationships with my team. Sometimes that is not helpful. My protocol needs to be When I'm having meetings, I need to take a couple of deep breaths and I need to bring my awareness into the back of my body and remind myself that we can go slow.
But it also means that to satiate the part of me that needs to go quickly. I have my assistant send me a report pretty regularly and she knows exactly what needs to be in it and it's clear and it's concise. And so it just is like, how do I work with my tendency is. Being aware of what they are, but also healing them so I'm not carrying around pain.
[00:24:34] Aneta: Right. Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you for going into detail there. And I could see how everybody could benefit from what you are doing. What are some of the biggest challenges you're seeing with these entrepreneurs that are coming in? Is it burnout? Is it just dysregulation in general? Like what are some of the things that you're finding?
[00:24:54] Sheridan: I think we go into two zones. The first zone. I would say it's the individuals who I work with who haven't quite gotten things up and running at the time. Like they're struggling. They're like at the beginning and they're like, they're at that place where I was of like, no matter what I do, it just feels like nothing is working.
And I would say the biggest tendency there is that they're going into a shutdown response. Their body is shutting down for many different reasons, and they're not able to take action with ease. Everything feels like it's difficult. So the tendency there is we go into this like hopeless place. I can't afford it. I can't do it. This is too hard. Nobody wants it. That shutdown place.
And then we have the high achievers who are perhaps in leadership positions. They've done the things, then it's burnout. They're good at doing a lot of things and they tend to overpush themselves.
[00:25:56] Aneta: Yeah. It sounds like the distorted feminine and masculine, like it's the collapsed feminine, which is I can't take action. I can't make a decision. I'm stuck in this place and need help activating some of that. And then the distorted masculine, which is just going to the point. And yeah, I have spent some time with my distorted masculine over the years being in corporate and then also being in banking specifically as a woman.
Yeah.
[00:26:26] Sheridan: It's funny you say that because I think about this, I don't know if this has been your experience. I don't speak about a lot, but all we're doing is just making a healthy masculine, and then the feminine will flow.
[00:26:38] Aneta: Oh. And I have a couple of words for it, depending on who I talk to, I call it devotion and discipline. Like I know that if I am overly indexing on my masculinity and it's starting to make me tired and stuff, I just say, I need to spend more time in devotion, which is my practice, which is nurturing what I need.
And it brings me back to this place of balance. And if I spend too much time, In the feminine, and I'm not taking action, then I know, okay, there are some things I need to do to take small baby steps, get the things moving again, and then find myself back. But after years, of course, of doing the work and finding.
And knowing myself being able to recognize what it is that I need and permitting myself. I don't know if you find this with your clients, but sometimes we just think we have to do things in a certain way, even when we know it's not good for us. Like, we're waiting for someone to just tap us and go, it's okay to have boundaries.
It's okay to take an app. It's okay to make a mistake. You don't have to wait until it's perfect. Whatever it is that they're struggling with.
[00:27:45] Sheridan: Yeah, 100%. And sometimes the most productive conversation we can have is just, what do you need and what do you want? Okay, go do it. Because at the end of the day, you are going to get what you want. This is also the larger conversation around what is desire and how you're going to get what you want.
If you want that specific thing, your body is going to make it hard for you to do anything other than that because the body is pulled and magnetized for some reason that we don't understand. If your body wants that thing, you can try as hard as you might to not do it, you're going to end up doing it.
And that includes going for a midday walk or launching the business or getting a job, if you want that thing, your body's going to pull you to it. Let's try and make sure that it's a healthy desire coming from a healthy place. But let's just cut through all of the words I can think of is not a nice word.
[00:28:48] Aneta: Nonsense. I'm curious Sheridan, what do you do when you find yourself ever in, where you might be going too hard, pushing too hard, and you're over-indexing in the masculine? Are there some go-to Practices or things that you mentioned yoga before, but I don't know if there's something else that just really replenishes you and brings you back?
[00:29:07] Sheridan: It changes at different times, but at the moment, the biggest thing that I have noticed is helpful is weekends off really disciplined around the hours, like working between these hours, not looking at your phone from Friday, 2 PM to Monday, 9 AM. And that has helped me contain myself. Yeah. What about you?
[00:29:34] Aneta: My morning time. I just feel like if I invest in my morning time, then I know that the rest of the day will typically go well. Like my morning meditation, breath work, journaling, writing, those types of things. Savoring the morning. But also I have to be outside. Like I need to ground.
And I know you and I talked about before just being earthy, both of us. Like I need plants. I need to touch the trees. I need to put my feet on. Even today was cold and rainy. And I just went barefoot and put my hand on my tree, one of my favorite trees in the backyard. And I was like, okay, I just need a little bit of this energy. That just does it for me.
And as an introvert, I recharge being by myself. So for me, it could just be like closing the door and saying, hey, I need just half an hour to just sit here or to read or to not do anything, but just breathe. But it's taken a while to just permit myself to do what I need.
But I know that when I don't, it's not good for anyone. It's not good for my husband, my kids, me, myself, or anybody else. And being in the position of doing what I do, holding space for others. I have to do this. It's not selfish. I must be able to show up for people the way I want to be able to show up.
[00:30:52] Sheridan: Yeah it's our responsibility to make sure that we're always spacious inside because we're holding space for other people.
[00:31:01] Aneta: That's so funny. You use that word. That's my word for 2025. I usually pick a word for the year. And today I was on my walk and I was talking to a friend and I said, my word for next year is spacious. Like I want to create more space for myself, for magic to come in, or flow, maybe that's the other word.
Like I'm just in this really beautiful, maybe feminine kind of space for 2025. Because it's been, it'll be like six years in January that I started. And so I don't know, it just feels like it's time to just do things just a little bit different now that there's a pretty strong foundation.
[00:31:36] Sheridan: That's so interesting because I don't usually say it in that way. And also on January 6th, I have a program starting called flow and it's just, yeah. And I've been feeling into that word as well lately of okay, we're trying to explain the program and I'm like, we do these things and it just feels like you're flowing and there's a part of me that's be more specific, Sheridan, I'm like no, but that's it. It's flow.
[00:32:00] Aneta: Yeah. I love the word flow too. And I've been thinking about how would you describe that. And for me, it's just being so aligned. It's like alignment that then allows me to surrender into whatever it is that I'm doing where I just lose track of time and space.
And as a creator things are just flowing in a way where the head doesn't get stuck and, there's nothing that's coming up that sort of creates any resistance. Yeah, I don't know how to describe it. It's a hard word to describe. I could only use words that prevent flow from happening, but how are you going to describe it? You said it's starting on January 6th.
[00:32:39] Sheridan: So it's interesting because the one that's starting January 6 is for females and how to work with your menstrual cycle to align. Business and work. And so it's just, yeah, how do you flow through the month? And I'm very excited about it, but as you're speaking, what's coming to mind is I recently, as I mentioned before, I'm writing a book, I've just written a book and it's in the process of editing, and publication at the moment.
And literally, it was just getting emails from my editor before we got on, I was like, there are things. And we have a chapter on flow and creating the flow state. So a lot of that last pillar of the body-based business methodology is, protecting at all costs, your flow state. And that's what's going to end up building what it is that you want. And the number one barrier to the flow state is mental chatter, inner critic, self-editing, et cetera, all of that mental stuff.
[00:33:38] Aneta: I love all this. Tell me more about the book. Do you have a title that you can share and is it a nonfiction book? What are you able to share with us?
[00:33:48] Sheridan: Yeah. The book is essentially how to use the body-based business protocol. I simultaneously wrote it as I just wrote it cause I was like, my clients need this in a book. Basically, I'm repeating all the same things. Let's just get this in a book, make it something that you can flip through and move and yeah, and move through.
So it's called somatic intelligence for successful nervous system alignment to prevent burnout and leave an impact. And yeah, it's just, what is somatic intelligence? How is it going to help you achieve your business health, wellness, and impact goals? And then there are the three ways that you're going to access it.
[00:34:32] Aneta: That is so good and so needed. That is amazing. So you said it's coming out at the beginning of the year.
[00:34:38] Sheridan: I reckon it'll be out in March. Let's see.
[00:34:40] Aneta: Okay. That's awesome. And will it be available everywhere?
[00:34:44] Sheridan: Yeah. It'll be available, everywhere, Amazon would get it on Amazon and everyone will be able to have it. Yeah.
[00:34:51] Aneta: That's Oh, that's wonderful. We definitely would love to include any sort of links. If people can get a pre-read, or are you sending out anything in advance to anybody in your community? Like an intro chapter or anything for feedback or you're beyond that point.
[00:35:06] Sheridan: Oh, I've done feedback quite a few times. So this is the third iteration of the book. I started writing the book last year and it's gone through some iterations. So we've had some feedback. I accidentally sent a link to a client. I meant to send her one thing. She's is this your book?
I was like, yeah, she's it's really good. I was like, I'm glad because you were not meant to see that. Yes, I don't think we'll do more of an intro. What we're doing probably is simultaneously I'll be launching a bit more of a community platform where we're going to actually go through and read the book over 12 months and there's 13 chapters, we'll read a chapter a month, apply it, learn, how do I apply this? What does that look like? What does this mean? So we'll go through it.
And what we're going to begin doing literally as of next week is have those founding members come into the community, they'll get access to the book, and we'll start using some of that. The launch will all happen at the same time. I'm still working out the details, but it gets to be something that next year everybody gets to move through together.
[00:36:10] Aneta: I love it. I can't wait to get a copy of the book. So I'm very excited about it. And if folks want to work with you and learn more about all the programs that you offer and the different services, what is the best way that they can find you?
[00:36:22] Sheridan: I would recommend just Googling Sheridan Ruth. I'm only me, you will find me, but I hang out a lot on Instagram. So it's underscore Sheridan, Ruth underscore. I also have a podcast that you should be able to Google as well. It's called sustainable Success. We've just rebranded. This is the first time I share the new name.
[00:36:47] Aneta: I love that.
[00:36:48] Sheridan: That's exciting. Lots of new things happening on this one. Sustainable Success. Yeah. Pop that into wherever you get your podcasts and you'll find me.
[00:36:56] Aneta: You are doing so many amazing things and just using your life and your platform for good. So thank you for shining the light in the world, Sheridan. And I ask everyone a final question, which is tied to the title of the podcast, which is what does it mean to you to live the width of your life?
[00:37:17] Sheridan: For me living the width of my life means embracing the sometimes uncomfortable sensations that living in this world and this economy and this system and this culture brings up and choosing this job. It's saying, yes, I agree to feel that constriction in my chest. Yes, I agree to feel the joy of that sun on my face. Yes, I agree with all of it. I have nothing to run away from, nothing to fix. I'm here for all of it. I trust that there's goodness inside of it and I'm willing to learn what it is trying to teach me.
[00:38:00] Aneta: My gosh, that is so beautiful. Thank you so much for spending time with me today. I just loved our conversation.
[00:38:08] Sheridan: Thank you so much.
[00:38:09] Aneta: Thank you.
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