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🎉🎉BIG HUGE LIFE CHANGING NEWS!!!!🎉🎉
(No, but for real.)

I am so honored, humbled, OVER-FREAKING-FLOWING with excitement to announce my book deal with Hachette Books for NOT AWAKENED. This book is a personal tell-all... sharing my own personal stories of shame (hi, liposuction at age 16! the endless search to be accepted by the popular group! alcohol fueled insanity! crazy bulimia while creating Soul Camp! money s**t. s*x s**t. ALL OF IT) to help readers own and eradicate their own and create the brand, relationship, LIFE that they never thought possible.

It's my deep knowing - from my own personal life and the thousands and thousands of people I've worked with over the past 15 years - that all that we are looking for exists in the mud we are hiding. So get ready to roll in some mud with me.

Endless thank you to my soulmate slash literary agent, Nena Kathryn Madonia, who saw who I was from the second she met me. I could not be more grateful to Diana Ventimiglia - my forever friend and EDITOR, what?! - who has been my partner in this message in all the ways.

Landing my dream publisher, with my soul-sister-dream-come- true editor was not a coincidence, it was a declaration (SEE SLIDE 2, shout out to my dear friend Kris Carr + Rachel Goldstein who held this vision a year ago when it was just a note on a piece of looseleaf in Kris's kitchen). It was a deep knowing birthed in the dark. I can't wait to meet you there.

I am going to host a party (you know I love my parties) next week and tell you all the ABSOLUTE SHAME-SPIRALING-YEAR-OF-NO's MIRACLE that was this book deal. Sign up at www.notawakened.com (and SEE ALL THE THINGS I MADE FOR YOU!!!!!) to get invited to the behind-the-scenes of it all.



PS: and of course forever grateful to my husband and wife, Eric and Alison, for being the best support system a girl, I mean, an AUTHOR, could have.

I'm sharing an embarrassing, hilarious, true story, dedicated to all those - like me - who dove deeeeeeep into the NYC wellness scene in the 2010's.

We lunched at Jivamuktea Cafe Nyc! We networked at Pure Food And Wine. NYC! We detoxed and we cleansed and we tried to find ourselves.

This is my story, of being NOT AWAKENED on that windy road to enlightenment.

NOT AWAKENED I arrived at the Oneness University in Chennai, India, with a too-large duffel filled with all-white “spiritual chic” wear from CHICO’s, and a too-large spiritual ego bursting at the seams. I had spent the previous few years diving chakra first into the emerging NYC spiritual scene. I call it ...

The work that I do with clients is disguised as branding.
It looks like a tagline, it reads as a website, it feels like legitimacy,
And while the work leads there, while its tentacles touch all of those tenets…
That’s not the work at all.

My clients sometimes let out a nervous giggle when our breakthrough conversation bends to their childhood.
When I ask about their parents. About who they were in that 7th grade lunchroom.
About what happened in their life to lead them to become the burnt out corporate lawyer, or the do-it-all class mom, or the teacher with years and years of healing experience under their belt.
Weren’t we just here to create a logo?!
No, we’re here to understand a life.

Who was the young version of you that led to this adult one?
What did she go through? What did he learn?
What was the darkness that led to this light?
What was the mud that led to the message we are creating?
The transformation that becomes the tagline.

Oftentimes, it is the foundational issues that we struggled with and dealt with as kids that is the bigger reason we’re doing what we’re doing on this planet. It’s those feelings we tried to bypass or stuff that are actually the megaphones calling in the clients, the readers, the stages we’re looking to touch.

I never felt like I belonged with those around me, so I created a life that produces products and experiences devoted to connection.
Your parents were chaotic and messy growing up? Perhaps you needed to create a life that looks and feels neat, organized… perfect.

It’s in the understanding that leads to the expansion.
The awareness before the accolade.

I am currently thick in the process of selling a book about shame (well, my amazing Agent is).
The writing is fu***ng great.
The platform is fu***ng solid.
And… the book has not yet sold.

So, knock knock knockedy knock, take a guess who’s at the door.
Yes! It’s SHAME!
Maybe this book isn’t good enough.
Maybe your platform isn’t big enough.
Maybe you aren’t ENOUGH.

But I have worked with enough clients and have tapped into enough foundational issues to know that this shame is here for me to acknowledge. Own. Share.

Because it’s in the understanding that leads to the expansion.
The awareness before the accolade.

But, f**k. That knock knock, knockedy knock.

It's the moooost wonderful tiiiiime of the year - IDEA ACCELERATOR TIME!!!

Do you want to start the new year with that idea off the vision board and into reality?

Do you want to finally launch that product? Start the business? Book the stages to speak on? Impact the people who need you most?

These sessions are POWER HOURS where I go laser sharp and deep Into your specific brand + idea and get you into motion.

Join me at HAYVN!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-idea-accelerator-workshop-with-michelle-garside-tickets-666866574877?_gl=1*10esusq*_ga*MTE2MDE3NzQ0My4xNzAxNzMyNjU4*_ga_8VY00MFCH3*MTcwMTczMjY1Ny4xLjEuMTcwMTczMjY2Ny41MC4wLjA.

The Idea Accelerator Workshop with Michelle Garside To fast-track your big idea, it’s imperative that you get clear on what your big dream is!

you guys, Soul Camp is at it again!!!

WE ARE GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER on Sunday at 5pm EST for a FREE, UNMISSABLE workshop....

2020: LET'S SAGE THAT SH*T!!!!

Join us as we do all the things:
- go deep
- let go
- create anew

For those of you who are already Soul Campers, you know how this goes. There will be meditation. There will be sharing. There will be reflecting. There will be soul chats.
There will be a saging and sendoff to 2020!

https://sagethats**t.splashthat.com

And it's FREAKING FREE.
AND, we will be sharing a super crazy announcement at the end for all participants who join us live.....

https://sagethats**t.splashthat.com

tag someone who needs this shizzzzz

Alison Leipzig

2020: LET'S SAGE THAT SH*T - Splash  A free workshop on December 13th at 5pm EST to support you in letting go of the sh*t from 2020, mining the gifts from it all and clearing the way for the future that is yours for the taking. We are in the final days of 2020.A year that changed so much, a year that awoke so many. A year that confu...

Over at Soul Camp Creative, we are FREAKING THRILLED to announce our latest brand launch, the one-and-only Dr. Heather Bartos!!

https://heatherbartosmd.com/

This wise-cracking, fun-loving, BFF-status OBGYN believes that YOU are a BADASS WOMAN and it's time you acted like one, and started putting yourself – and your self care – first. (And by self-care, she doesn't mean lying in bed drinking wine, eating ice cream, and watching Mad Men reruns. That’s not self-care, it’s escapism. ).

It all starts by making yourself the #1 priority in your life again, and learning what your unique body, mind, and soul really need.

https://heatherbartosmd.com/

Check her out and drop your name + email on her site to get the FREE “Mind/Body Bada$$ in 19” delivered instantly!!

We are FREAKING THRILLED to announce our latest Soul Camp brand launch, the one-and-only Dr. Heather Bartos!!

https://heatherbartosmd.com/

This wise-cracking, fun-loving, BFF-status OBGYN believes that YOU are a BADASS WOMAN and it's time you acted like one, and started putting yourself – and your self care – first. (And by self-care, she doesn't mean lying in bed drinking wine, eating ice cream, and watching Mad Men reruns. That’s not self-care, it’s escapism. ).

It all starts by making yourself the #1 priority in your life again, and learning what your unique body, mind, and soul really need.

https://heatherbartosmd.com/

Check her out and drop your name + email on her site to get the FREE “Mind/Body Bada$$ in 19” delivered instantly!!

Meet Joan Kuhl - the creator of the Courage to Stay movement and author of Dig Your Heels In. Joan has created a hub for ambitious, purpose-driven women ready to build bridges to transform the corporate world- instead of burning them.

🥳 We are so excited for you to check out our latest brand launch at www.joankuhl.com & www.thekuhlco.com and learn more about what Joan does.

🎁 Make sure to grab her free masterclass on how to combat Imposter Syndrome, something we all need! Share with any friend you think this may be helpful for.

🙌🏼 Let’s all show Joan a soulful congratulations below for stepping into her purpose more fully so more women can do the same and we can change the world!

Meet - the creator of the Courage to Stay movement and author of Dig Your Heels In. Joan has created a hub for ambitious, purpose-driven women ready to build bridges to transform the corporate world- instead of burning them. Joan came to us known as an expert of millienials in the workplace but in her work throughout the years with clients like and .mets.official she saw that it was women who needed to have a paradigm shift. She saw women leaving the worlds largest companies in droves but knows that one way to make massive change is to STAY and make the change from within. The Courage to Stay platform was created by and in our signature brand breakthrough. It’s the perfect platform to house this powerful message, powerful woman and her upcoming book.

🥳 We are so excited for you to check out our latest brand launch at www.joankuhl.com and learn more about what Joan does.

🎁 Make sure to grab her free masterclass on how to combat Imposter Syndrome, something we all need! Share with any friend you think this may be helpful for.

🙌🏼 Let’s all show Joan a soulful congratulations below for stepping into her purpose more fully so more women can do the same and we can change the world!

Introducing the latest Soul Camp Creative brand creation for our best friend/client over at Purposeful Platforms, Inc!! The brilliant Richelle Zizian Fredson is here on this planet to help writers become authors. With 15 years as the director or publicity and marketing at a major publishing house in NYC, she now helps teachers build robust and engaged platforms so that they can effectively and powerfully share their books with the world. She creates a strategy that aligns with your intentions and core teachings.

Our lead brand strategist, yours truly, co-created the brand name & messaging for Richelle to help showcase her whip-smart knowledge of how to help teachers become published authors as well as share her passion for helping those teachers truly express their purpose in the world.

This all came through in our signature Brand Breakthrough session and was implemented throughout the brand creation process.

If you are a teacher who is ready to finally write that book and get your heart’s message out there, Richelle is your gal.

Check out her full site at:
www.purposefulplatforms.com

Photos by Christa Meola. Art by Hannah Coward. Creative direction by Alison Leipzig. Brand strategy and creation by