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11358 Nicole Wasserman-12 02 24-Holistic Healer-Jon
Welcome to the Professional Podcast Network, where brilliance meets business, elevate your brand, and supercharge your revenue with inspiring insights and innovation. And welcome back. You're listening to PPN, where we bring you talk with interesting business people from all walks of life. I'm your host, John Starr. And up next, we are talking with Nicole Wasserman. She is a holistic healer, the owner of Nicole Holistic Healing, based in New York, California, and Hawaii. She covers the globe. Welcome, Nicole, to the show today. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. And thank you for being here. We're excited to have you. So, New York, California, and Hawaii, Nicole, tell us all about your holistic healing business and how you got started in the business and traveling the globe like that. Yes, so I was in a Korean organization, actually, for 10 years, based in Bergen County, New Jersey, right outside of New York City, Northern New Jersey. And I got trained in kind of Kyatsu massage, but it's like an ancient Korean energy healing with massage kind of practice and teaching Korean style of yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and meditation. And that also includes like shocker healing and spiritual healing. And I would travel a lot for that going to Sedona, Arizona, so I actually lived in Sedona for two years. And from Sedona, I kind of branched out to California, and from California, I branched out to Hawaii. So, I've just been exploring because for about 10 years, I was just in one location in New Jersey and also a little bit out of state New York. But after, during the pandemic, everything kind of shut down. So I decided to travel during that time. And I really got to explore the rest of the country that I was just burning to explore. So, I'm doing... Fantastic. Yeah, that's a great story. So, what kind of inspired you to, you know, get involved in, you know, the things you mentioned, you know, this type of, you know, massage therapy and, you know, all the specialties you have. I would say was the big inspiration for you. Yeah, I would say, actually, that I didn't intentionally get into this work for any kind of personal reason, other than I found a holistic healing center that was run by Koreans. And I actually suffered from a very serious mental illness for most of my life. And it started when I was, like, 14 years old and I got worse in high school. And I went to college at Rutgers and I study cultural anthropology. And so I really loved culture and I really loved the world, like learning about the world. And when I went home, because I'm from Fort Lee, New Jersey, actually, Leonia, New Jersey. And when I went home after college, I didn't have a job and my goal actually was to work for the UN. I wanted to do, like, you know, special missions and, you know, fight Google poverty and food insecurity and human rights and all those things. But when I went home, I literally just wanted to swim in a non-chlorinated pool. And this one facility in Bergen County had an ionized pool, which is different even than a saltwater pool. And I went there and it was, like, a very high-end spa and they were, like, this amount per month. And I was, like, I can't afford that. And they actually asked me to work there. I started working there and they noticed that I had anxiety. I had social anxiety. So I couldn't really deal with people, you know, coming in to greet them and giving them their key. It was just very simple things that anybody else could really do. But I was so nervous about meeting people. So they were like, you should go and do the yoga and Tai Chi upstairs. And I was like, okay, I never did, like, Korean yoga, Korean Tai Chi. So I went up and I gave it a try and I got addicted to it. It was, like, a very, very non-competitive, non, like, you don't have to judge yourself. And it's all very much internal focus and about your breathing and about, you know, releasing pain and tension from your body. And in that facility, there were all different ages. So there was even people almost in their 90s in the same class as me. And I was only 22. Wow. So it was a very, like, holistic, you know, very spiritual oriented, very, like, energetic thing that I never had any experience. And I was a gymnast when I was young, so 15 years I was a competitive, well, I was competitive only for a couple of years, but I was trained as a competitive gymnast. And I was very, like, hard working physically, so this kind of more meditative and internal mindful practice was something completely new. And through this practice, I was on 15 years of medication, like, you know, for anxiety depression and also I was diagnosed bipolar. And after three years, I got off of all my medication. Wow. That's amazing. Mm-hmm. And, you know, I'm sure -- I'm sorry, go ahead. I was going to say I'm sure there are people listening who have a similar experience to you. It's always the people who go through things, who think that they're the only one and they, you know, they may be a little fearful about talking about it, but I'm sure there are listeners listening to your story and saying, "Hey, you know, that sounds like me and they'd like to reach out to you for more information, more help. Maybe they'd like to try Tai Chi or Yoga and, you know, go through the same healing process that you've gone through. And how can our listeners do that? You have good website, phone number, social media links, how can we get in touch with you? Yes. So my website, I'm so happy to help anybody who is struggling with anything, basically, because this kind of mindfulness training is really about getting in touch with yourself. So whatever people are going through, it's just a spectrum of how far away we've kind of lost touch with ourselves. Because really, deeply down, we have all the answers. We have the tools that we need. Obviously, Western medicine, you know, we need to balance both Eastern and Western. Sometimes there are things that cannot be healed by the mind. They're just -- it's just a physical disease. But that disease is rooted in the mind. So at least focusing on that can help at least relieve pain, relieve suffering, you know, some kind of mental suffering, and also help us just, you know, cope better with what we're going through. So if people want to reach out to me, I really appreciate it. And my website is nicoholisticular.com. And my same Instagram, same TikTok, YouTube is also the same. I have some videos there, which people can watch for free. And I'm also creating some courses. So I meet people one-on-one through Zoom. So anybody in the whole world can -- we can work together wherever people are. Fantastic. Well, Nicole, you have an amazing story. I'm so glad we had you as our guest today. I hope you will come back and talk with us again sometime. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. All right, and best of luck going forward with your, you know, your business, your practice. Thank you. Beautiful. All right. You take care. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. And to all our listeners, don't go away. We'll be right back after this short break. Welcome to the Professional Podcast Network, where brilliance meets business. Elevate your brand and supercharge your revenue with inspiring insights and innovation. (upbeat music)