2074 – Revolutionizing Employee Wellness and Personal Development with Xpansion Alchemy’s Ania Halama

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1:06With us right now, it is the one, the only Anya Halama. Anya, you are the founder and CEO of Expansion Alchemy. You're found on the web at expansionalchemy.com. That's expansion with just an X, X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N, alchemy.com. And of course, Anya, you have your personal website as well, which is anyahalama.com. Well, it's great to have you, Anya. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much, Josh. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah. Well, give us an overview of your work and what you do and who you serve. Yeah. So Expansion Alchemy is a wellness platform in the realms of a B2B, in the realms of personal development, health relationships, financial wealth, as well as how they feel better so they can be more productive, so they can have better relationships.

1:52How they have better relationships with their spouses is how they have relationships with their other employees and coworkers as well. and just their finances go up as well. And then you can retain your employees for longer. They want to stay in your company longer because they're happier, they're more productive, they feel better, they're healthier, and they just want to work for you a little bit longer. So, hey. Yeah. So in terms of the types of companies that you work with, so, you know, I'm seeing things on your website about things like plant medicine, things that are, you know, spiritual mentoring.

2:28And so I wonder, you know, who might look at this and go, oh, well, yeah, I mean, that sounds great, but I don't want too much woo. Yes, that's why I separate them. I separate them, of course. So my website is all woo. I am all the woo. However, the business side, I do have a corporate background. I worked in corporate America for over 10 years. And expansion alchemy is more of that holistic, that groundedness. compounded in this, not the woo. We're going to like soar around in the cosmos. Okay. We're going to breathe. Let's show you the science of what a breathing technique, how that reprograms your system.

3:06Let's show you the science of that. And then you try that out with your team or like the scientifically backed stuff. The woo stuff is great. That's just me, my personal stuff, what I do with my one-on-one clients. That's great for the corporate side. That's completely different because those are the people that want to see the science evidence, the back stuff. Yeah. And what does that look like in a workspace versus let's go fly in the cosmos, which is fun, but not for everyone. Yeah, maybe not on company time. Go fly another time. So, Anya, tell me a little bit about the science. So let's think about, you know, some of the evidence-based research or findings or experiences that you may have seen or witnessed.

3:51That really does have a place in a, you know, what we might call like a very mixed audience, typical workplace. Maybe they're all committed to personal growth and that sort of thing. So that all sounds good. So where do you fit in and what are some of the tools that you see that are very practical? They're accessible. And you know what? They are going to help drive the results that most founders and people leaders are looking for within their organization. Yeah, so I'll give you one tip that I actually just started giving off to some of our clients, and they are loving it. So simple gratitude round, we think like, Oh, I'm grateful for, I'm grateful for this phone.

4:35I'm grateful for this. I'm grateful for this. But not only what you're grateful for, but why you're grateful for it. why you're grateful for it. Science has shown that that switches up your system inside of you, and it puts you into the energy of, again, why you're grateful for it. It brings you back into that moment. Okay, someone of a coworker did this for me. My wife did this. I'm so grateful that today I got acknowledgement from a coworker. Try it with your team. Next time you have a team meeting, sit in a circle, your Monday standup meetings, whatever it might be, and do a round of gratitude, whether it's personal or work related, and see the slight shifts of changes that you start seeing within your employees, within your team.

5:23You will notice that they will start feeling better. If they're feeling better, if they're feeling more appreciated, appreciated. I felt so underappreciated when I worked in corporate America. It's just a simple thing of going around sharing a gratitude. If they're feeling more appreciated, they want to work more for you. They'll feel better. They'll be like, okay, I had a great day. All of a sudden, like Susie has a smile on her face all day. And you're like, what just happened? Simple gratitude. Hmm. Yeah. So you had talked about, you know, in your weekly meeting, you know, you know, keeping space for that moment of gratitude, you know, all on maybe like a Thanksgiving dinner, right?

6:08Okay, everybody share one thing that you're thankful for, which is great. But, you know, kind of growing from that, which I think is a great place to start. And I don't mean to make light of that. I'm just being silly here. But what I'm really interested is, as people leaders, what are some other things that we can do? I've got some ideas. I bet you're going to name the one I'm thinking of. What are some other things that we can do to create or inspire, hint, hint, hint, a culture of gratitude in our workplace, in our family, in our communities and beyond? There's so many things that we could do, not only gratitude, meditation, breathwork.

6:50These words are popping up all of the time on social media throughout, throughout their buzzwords. So like gratitude, meditation, breath work, but really living in it. Not only, and this is what I was saying a little bit earlier, is not only what you're grateful for, but why you're grateful for. So you're fully start embodying this, why I'm grateful for it and start living that. As I'm sure you've all heard of it, like live as if, like as if you're trying to be something. Well, live as if you are already grateful for what it might be for Susie helping you for your wife, doing whatever for your kids saying, thank you, making you one of those like spaghetti necklaces that I'm thinking of, just be being in that environment of being grateful and living as if you're grateful and just inspiring, constantly inspiring others to be grateful for everything.

7:46And then journaling, meditating, all of that is complementary to it. Yeah. Tell me a little bit about the trends that you've been observing as you've worked with your personal clients. And then after that, I really want to get into how you work with other professionals in this space, because you've provided to someone that's listening, they're resonating with what you're talking about. And they also have clients. We're going to get to that in just a second. But again, just general trends and what you're seeing. Maybe it's challenges that have been, you know, a specific challenge that has become more and more pronounced over the years.

8:25Or if you're looking in your crystal ball a little bit and you're looking at the road ahead of 2025, you know, the things that you would recommend to leaders to say, yeah, I'd probably get on the stick on this. So something that I'm seeing often, and whether it's working B2B or B2C, is people's worthiness. People are not feeling worthy of getting a promotion, of finding love, of making more money. Just people aren't feeling worthy. And this has been a trend that I've been seeing for multiple years now, and I am still seeing it. I'm going to keep still seeing it. So just have that appreciation for your employees, for your spouses, for everyone.

9:11So people start feeling worthy and then also working on yourself so you know you are worthy of that promotion, whether that's sitting in a simple meditation, whether that's watching a personal development film, whether that's whatever, going on a walk and connecting to nature, whatever it might be, working on that with yourself, but also giving appreciation to others so people can feel that reciprocity, goodness. And so they can feel that they are worthy within themselves as well and the people that surround them. Yeah. You know, there are some serious, this is the last thing I want to talk about on this subject matter, because it's fascinating.

9:51But not only are there kind of emotional or productivity justifications for this, but if you just want a healthier community, if you want a healthier workplace, if you want a healthier family, there are real connections between the practice of gratitude and just better. health outcomes. I'm throwing you a softball here.

10:23So I truly believe the more that you are grateful for everything, the more that you receive the universe, God, whatever you might call it, will give you more. So just being grateful for the little things. Thank you. Thank you for waking up today. Thank you for me having my help today. Thank you for my spouse. Thank you for it being sunny today. It's been raining for a long time. I'm so grateful that it is sunny right now. So you're going to keep amplifying that. And what you focus on, you keep amplifying and you do receive more of that. So there is links to that. Yeah. All right. So let's talk a little bit about Expansion Alchemy and how you work with other professionals who are in, you know, and I'll have you maybe define who it is that we're talking about and how you work with other, I don't want to say, their consultants, coaches or folks within this space?

11:14Yeah, so Expansion Alchemy, we have a B2B as well as a B2C section. So on the B2B side, well, for both of them, actually, we have a 12 mentor. So it's not only me, you're not only getting access to me, but you're getting access to 11 other mentors as well. Each one of the 12, we do one live class a month. So once a month, you get 12 classes. there's a back office portal where you can watch all of the replays all the classes are done live on zoom and then once the class is done it gets uploaded to the portal you can go back it's organized by the mentors names and then it's also organized by our five pillows so personal development health relationships holistic and financial wellness so you can go back and watch any of the replays we do do some in-person events we've done in-person events and i would love to do Like this is 2025 goals is like big events where people come to us.

12:04I've had visions of this. Like we're going to be in a big stadium, expansion alchemy with all 12 teachers, 12 teachers get an hour or two, whatever it might be weekend long. I don't know yet, but would love to do, um, in like big in-person events, but we do do some in-person stuff. Um, and yeah, it's$99 a month per employee and 99 for the year, depending on the size of your company will depend on the final price points. You can pay quarterly, you can pay yearly. For example, if you have a hundred employees, it's about$75 ,000 for the year for all of your employees. Yeah. Okay. So, and like clients or companies that you've worked with thus far, can you tell me a little bit about their experience?

12:51Yeah. So they're absolutely loving it. Most of them, we are, we are fairly new. We've only been around for a little bit over a year and a half and our clients, our corporate clients that we've had have been around for a couple of months. So no one's been through the entire year yet with us. So I can't speak to that. However, they are loving it. We are seeing lots of people be more productive, be happier. We've had some testimonials. It was one of my favorite testimonials ever was this gentleman came into one of the classes and he's like, I am not a crier ever, especially in a like a professional setting where I have other teammates around me.

13:30And but this class just moved me, I was able to like release some doubts that I had within myself that I didn't even know that I was able to have within myself, that I didn't know that I had within myself. And thank you, just thank you so much going back into that gratitude and just appreciation. And I love that because so many of us were like, okay, I need to be tough, especially like the corporate hustle mentality men. Like I need to be, I need to be just strong. And this man just broke down in the middle of the classes. And he's like, that was, I was vulnerable for the first time in a long time.

14:04That's one of my all-time favorite testimonials that we have. Yeah. Your website, expansionalchemy.com. And when it was say that, you know, it's likely a founder or someone who's in people leadership for their company, um what does the i mean what do you typically talk about on a first call to decide if this is something that might be helpful for their organization yeah so we'd love to see what kind of wellness platforms you have implemented right now what kind of wellness benefits you have implemented right now and then we'll walk you through um the five pillars that we have and we'll talk about some of the things that might help your company whether it's the productivity happiness, et cetera.

14:45And then afterwards we'll send you 10 sample classes. So you'll walk away with 10 sample classes, two for each one of the pillars, personal development, health relationships, holistic wealth, et cetera. So you can watch them, share them with your team and see if it's the right fit for you. And then afterwards we'll schedule a second follow-up call to see if it's fit once you look through all of those deliverables. Yeah. All right. Expansion, alchemy.com. We have the, to our friend that's been listening to us, very simple. Just click around your podcast app. We have a direct link there. And then Anya, do you mind just sharing a little bit about who might want to reach out to you to work personally with you or contract you as a speaker, like what that process is?

15:29Yeah. So again, that side of things on anyahalama.com versus the expansion Alchemy one. And me personally, I work with really helping people break through some of their limiting beliefs. So rewire, I work a lot with the subconscious, whether it's through breath work, EFT tapping, different modalities, and really get past limiting beliefs that are stopping them from really achieving that next step in their life, whether it's looking for a promotion, looking to manifest a lover, manifest their spouse, whatever it might be, gain more money. But a lot of people have those, again, yes, worthiness, but also some kind of blocks within them.

16:08So really reprogramming the subconscious to move to that next step. All right. And again, that website, AnyaHalama.com. Anya Halama, again, you're the founder of ExpansionAlchemy.com. Again, ExpansionAlchemy.com, AnyaHalama.com. Anya, it's been a great conversation. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much, Josh. It's been a pleasure.

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