Hi, I'm Melody Gaynor!
Skeptical of the woo? Yeah, me too!
When I started seeing the connections between the science I'd studied my whole life and the spirituality that, somewhere deep down, I just had this intense knowing was true... it was truly one of the happiest days of my life.
Because my skepticism was working in my favor! I was seeing the proof. I was seeing the science. I was seeing why the woo works.
And I wanna help you see it too.
Want to feel it before you read another word? Clear Your Mental Clutter is my free shamanic journey, and for a few minutes, the noise in your head stops.
Give Me the Quiet!I was 4 the first time I felt someone else's pain
My parents and I were at the hospital visiting someone from our church. Walking past a closed patient door, I grabbed my leg, dropped to the floor, and started screaming. My mom asked what was wrong, and all I could tell her was that my leg hurt. Then the door behind me opened, a nurse walked out, and my mom saw the patient inside: a man who'd just had major surgery on his leg, with pins and rods coming out of it.
The same leg I was screaming about.
Nobody knew what that was until I was 9, when my mom's doctor told her, "Your daughter is a medical intuitive." He taught me how to let pain move through me instead of letting it settle in my body like it was my own. I also worked through his medical textbooks word by word with a medical dictionary beside me, and that's when I fell in love with the brain and the nervous system.
I grew up in a very strict religious Southern home, where prayer felt to me like pleading and begging and whining about what I didn't get... a kid throwing a tantrum in the grocery store over 4 boxes of gummy worms she won't even like! At 15 I left the church, with my parents' agreement, on one condition: that I keep studying and decide for myself what I believed. So I studied anything I could get my hands on: the major religious texts, spirituality, science, physiology, philosophy, yoga, meditation, and breathwork! And I learned early that the answers and the wisest choices always came in the stillness.
In college I found behavioral psychology in a Psych 101 class, and quantum physics in long office-hour conversations with my biology professor.
And then my life unraveled
The relationship I believed was my next big step ended, and I lost a job I loved. Depression moved in, and for most of my adult life I needed sleep aids just to get through the night.
I was on multiple medications, and panic attacks hit so hard that I needed a service dog to get through the work day.
All that studying, and I still didn't know how to hear myself. My head was too loud to hear my own inner wisdom, let alone trust it.
July 2018: the day Shoshone showed up
My husband had done a medicine wheel program himself, and he suggested I do one too... and offered to pay for it.
On day one, I took my first shamanic journey to meet my spirit guides. My head guide showed up, introduced herself as Shoshone, and told me she was the guide I'd talk to most often. Then she told me I would teach this one day, my way, with my science background, showing people why the woo works.
That's the day I told you about up top, one of the happiest of my life. The brain I'd been studying since I was 9, the religion, spirituality, and philosophy I'd been studying since 15, the behavioral psychology and quantum physics I found in college: all of it finally came together in one place.
And quieting my mind long enough to hear Shoshone was step one of my whole life changing.
I'm off all medication, and I haven't had a panic attack in 7 years
My service dog retired to just be a dog with his brother. And learning to sleep again turned out to be one of the biggest changes of all.
I still remember the morning it happened. I woke up a few minutes before my alarm, after about 6 hours of sleep, and with the blackout curtains closed I thought it was still the middle of the night. When I checked the time and realized I'd actually slept, I cried from the relief!
Now I fall asleep within 20 minutes, wake up when the dog needs out, go right back to sleep, and get 8 to 9 hours every night. I know that's a privilege a lot of people don't have, especially parents, and especially mothers.
Everything I teach, I learned the hard way. I went looking for the answers I needed, and those answers became my work. I went the long way so you get to take the shortcut.
I didn't set out to work with entrepreneurs
In the early days of my business I went the more typical spiritual route: energy healing sessions, tarot readings, and intuitive readings.
Then I did readings for and coached a handful of entrepreneurs, and their businesses brought up exactly what they needed to work on, in such a poignant and beautiful way. Using my intuition on their business questions was more fun for me, because those questions were perfect lead-ins to the deeper self-metamorphosis and self-improvement work I really wanted to focus on.
It's easier to look at your business and see the habits and the programming affecting your decisions than it is to see them in your personal life. Business problems usually come with deadlines, and they touch your money, so they get your attention. Life problems get put off until later.
Years later, coaching one of my clients was the most fun I've ever had working, and I watched her get bolder talking about her work and more confident and capable in her business.
I am so proud I got to walk beside her while she blossomed! That's where Why the Woo Works was born.
What I live by
I act from love
Love for myself and love for others. I want every action I take to be a loving one. I don't always hit that mark, because I'm not perfect... and yet it's always the standard!
I return to joy and peace
Sadness and grief come for all of us, and joy and peace are the states of being I come back to every time. Joy comes in the morning! I model that return for my family, my clients, and my students, so they know they can find their way back too.
I'm building a legacy of prosperity
For my younger brother, my step-children, my grandchildren, and my great-grandchildren, I'm leaving a legacy of wealth and a consciousness of prosperity that goes way past dollars and cents. And I want it to spread to my clients and students too. Infectious prosperity consciousness!
I create freedom
For myself, and for every client and student I work with. It's never my job to create dependence, it's always my job to create independence. Lean on me when you need it, and then walk away with what you need to help yourself.
I work from passion
This work is my passion, and it's the vehicle for every other value on this list.
So what do I do now?
I'm an intuitive business strategist, certified professional life coach, modern-day Shaman, and the creator of the Quantum Medicine Wheel™. I believe that being an entrepreneur is THE BEST self-development course you will ever take! So, I teach you how to quiet the mental noise and trust your own unique inner wisdom, then I teach you the tools to heal what life and business bring up.
Where it all leads is you becoming The Sovereign Entrepreneur: a woman who can quiet her own mind, hear her own inner wisdom, trust it, and heal what her life and business bring to the surface... herself!
Who is Melody Gaynor?
Melody Gaynor teaches spiritually seeking women entrepreneurs how to quiet the mental noise and trust their own unique inner wisdom, then teaches them the tools to heal what life and business bring up. She is a modern-day Shaman, author, intuitive business strategist, certified professional life coach, and creator of the Quantum Medicine Wheel™.
Her fascination with the brain and nervous system started at 9 years old, when she began working through medical textbooks word by word with a medical dictionary and a regular dictionary open beside her. At 15 she began studying everything she could get her hands on, from the major religious texts to philosophy and spirituality, then found behavioral psychology and quantum physics in college.
In July 2018, after living with PTSD and feeling the impact of trauma in her own body, Melody entered a medicine wheel program. It became a major part of her healing, and it's where all 4 threads came together. Today the Quantum Medicine Wheel™ combines the shamanic practices she was taught with the neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and quantum physics behind them, so women never have to take their practice on blind faith. They get to know Why the Woo Works.
Melody runs Why the Woo Works, a DBA of Melody Morris Intl., from Moseley, Virginia, and has been in business since 2019. Her earlier business names include Creative Be-ing Academy and Total Energy Healing, and before she married, she was Melody Morris. Her professional background is in accounting, business management, and marketing.
She has been a featured contributor in the Audience Growth Society Bundle, Explode Your Audience Bundle, Kickstart Your Audience Bundle, March Freebie Bonanza, May Momentum Giveaway, Phoenix Quest, Rooted & Real Bundle, Haunted Library Summit, Business Growth Party, Sacred Rest Quest, Winter Solstice Wealth Spell, and September Gratitude Giveaway.
In her words, "It's never my job to create dependence." The point is for every woman to trust her own inner wisdom and do more of her own healing. When she isn't teaching, Melody is at home in Moseley with her husband and their dog Duke, a blue brindle pitty, and she still goes to Webster any time she wants to know what a word means.
Ready to hear yourself think?
Start with Clear Your Mental Clutter, my free shamanic journey. You'll step through a mirror into the attic of your own mind, clear out what's been piling up there, and tuck the wisdom you find into a wooden box to keep.
Bring your skepticism with you. It's working in your favor!
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