Sydney's Bio
My journey from Department Store Executive to Madam, then Author, to Speaker, then Business Consultant, and now – Light Worker
We’ve all heard the myth, “A cat has nine lives.” I’ve never heard anything about how many lives humans have, but so far, I’ve had six.
After growing up in New Jersey I moved to Connecticut for a few years after getting kicked out of boarding school, basically for having more fun than was deemed proper and for never ratting out any of the other girls involved. [Nothing to do with drugs, alcohol or anything like that]
Ended up in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology because I liked pretty clothes and didn’t know what else to do with myself. After graduating first in my class, I was awarded a coveted position in the Executive Training Program at Abraham & Strauss, the jewel in the crown of Federated Department Stores. After leaving there, held executive positions in two resident buying offices until being fired for refusing to participate in a kickback scheme. That was Life Number One.
Life Number Two
It’s a looong story. In a nutshell another gal and I opened up a very high-end escort service – best job I ever had. Unfortunately New York’s Finest shut it down (OK, we were busted), only to eventually publicly concede it was the most honest and professionally run business of its kind ever operated in New York City.
Life Number Three
Had to pay the lawyers who saw to it the only punishment meted out was a $5,000 fine they promptly dubbed, “A kiss on the wrist.” So grudgingly, I wrote a book about it to pay the very steep legal fees. To everyone’s delight, sales went through the roof and it made it to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, the goal of every author (and their publisher!). The title was Mayflower Madam and you can usually find previously enjoyed copies online. It was translated into seven languages and you could probably find those as well.
Life Number Four
Like most authors of bestselling non-fiction books, requests for speaking engagements started rolling in that took me all over the world for several years – great fun!
Life Number Five
Fortune Magazine named it one of the Ten Best Business Books of the year, and requests for consulting work started rolling in. The whole idea seemed totally ludicrous to me – what could a madam possibly know about business that these MBAs didn’t? Quite a bit it turned out.
Life Number Six
It all started when I stumbled on “energy work” and like many of you, thought it was a crock. At the time, I’d been working for years with solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and small businesses and professional practices as a consultant specializing in the Experience their clients, customers, or patients had during the course of doing business with them. One day a woman got in touch with me because she’d learned to do something she called energy work, but had no idea how to make a business out of it. Well, I had no idea what energy work was and as she was explaining it to me, my eyes couldn’t roll back in my head far enough. By the time she was done I’d pegged her as one of those west coast woo-woo, wheatgrass-juice-and-tofu-burger types, who didn’t have a snowball’s chance in a very hot mythical place of making any money with this bizarre sounding stuff.
After hearing her out…
I was satisfied that it wouldn’t endanger anyone’s life, wasn’t illegal, and didn’t offend my personal moral principles (no snickering please), and concluded, “Why not? Who am I to judge how she or her clients spend their money?”
Business is business and the same basic principles apply to all of them. I didn’t have to believe in what she was doing to help her create a business out of it. The marketing aspect would be a challenge, but it would definitely be an interesting one!
Well of course it turned out…
She didn’t have any money and asked if I would consider a barter arrangement. My landlord doesn’t take barter, Con Ed doesn’t take barter and I’ve never taken barter either. Especially for something I didn’t believe I’d ever get anything useful out of. So you can imagine my surprise to hear the words, “Well… OK…” coming out of my mouth. I couldn’t have been more shocked to discover that it worked! I definitely started thinking and acting very differently in ways that had a noticeably positive effect in my life and on my business. And it came to me that if it worked for me, it could work for my clients, too.
As every consultant will tell you…
There are people who pay you hundreds if not thousands of dollars to come in, analyze their business situation and then come up with a plan to fix the problems, which the client loves and thinks is brilliant!
And then they end up doing very little, if anything, about it
Since I now personally knew it worked, I figured that if I added this energy work stuff to my consulting toolbox, then my clients would be able to take action and actually get the results they wanted and had paid for!
So I looked into learning to do what she was doing, found out that in a couple of months the doctor who originated it was going to be teaching a workshop less than an hour away, signed up, and that’s how it all began.
Fast forward 12 years…
and now energy work is my primary business. And the majority of my clients are still solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and small businesses and professional practices that are mostly seeking to generate more revenue.
However, as we all know having a desire to achieve a goal, regardless of how strong that desire is, doesn’t necessarily mean we’re able to do what we need to do to make that happen.
Energy work removes these blocks and clears the negative beliefs that get in the way of taking action to accomplish whatever it is you’d like to be, do or have. It’s incredibly rewarding to hear how much happier, more satisfied, and pleased with themselves my clients are after the negative stuff that’s getting in the way of their hopes, dreams and goals is gone and no longer has any power over them and their ability to make a boatload of money or whatever else they were seeking to achieve.
Maybe you're thinking you'd like to have another life! Why not?
I’d love to hear about your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations, and the challenges that are getting in the way of making them come true.
Let’s look at the possibilities, let’s talk about what your future could look line if you could just get out of your own way. What might happen once the negative blocks and limiting beliefs that are holding you captive aren’t sabotaging you anymore?
Plenty of other people are now living lives they never dreamed possible, because they’re no longer stuck in the past or existing in an unsatisfying present. Wouldn’t you like to be one of them?
Please get in touch with me using the form below. Please put “Schedule a call” in the note field, and let’s set up a complimentary, no-obligation, 30-minute exploratory discussion so you can tell me about what’s going on and what you’d like to change, to be different about your life.
Remember
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
DO IT NOW.
You aren’t getting any younger and you might not get appreciably richer or happier, either. Why take a chance? Maybe it’s right for you, maybe it isn’t and that’s OK. Why not find out now – if it is, you can get started and who knows where you’ll be in six months or a year?
All it takes is to use the easy form below to send me your contact info and I’ll reach out to set up a time. When we meet, I’ll tell you more about it, you can ask as many questions as you like, and then think about whether you’d like to give it a try or not. No hard feelings if you decide it’s not for you.
Wishing you happiness, prosperity and an abundance of all the things that give you joy.
“I’m meditating again now and haven’t done that for such a long time.
“I feel so much better after all of the negative energies we released and I’m much more neutral about not being good enough.
“I’ve also been losing more and more weight and am not sabotaging myself with food as often.
“You have brought such peace and confidence into my life, I don’t know how to thank you enough.”
“As we’ve been working together I’m feeling so much more relaxed and not so concerned about what others think of me.”
Trudy N