As soon as I decided to create the Guru Spotlight series, I knew Elysia Skye would be at the top of my list. She is the mindset guru. Elysia has a gift for taking the things we all quietly struggle with, like fear of judgment, doubts about our worth, and the number we're scared to put on our services, and making them feel simple. Not easy, but simple. And our conversation was full of moments I'll be carrying with me for a long time.

Elysia didn't set out to build a method. Someone had to point it out to her. She was talking with her brother-in-law, Nicholas, when he asked her a question she had never really stopped to consider. As she tells it:

That became the foundation for everything that followed.

When I asked what keeps people from acting on what they already know, Elysia gave me a name for something I've felt for years: the invisible jury.

She doesn't love the term imposter syndrome. If someone was bullied or shamed as a kid for being loud or proud or funny, she explained, that isn't a syndrome. It's a trauma response. And the jury? We never chose it. It was handed to us.

Elysia knows her own jury well. Back in 2020, she wanted to become a certified coach for The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks' book on the hidden barriers and upper limits we place on our own success. She reached out to the Hendricks Institute, only to learn the program was paused for the pandemic. Their response surprised her: she clearly knew the material, so she should just go teach it and help people, even if she wasn't officially certified.

One of her tools for quieting that voice is wonderfully practical: give your ego a name you'd never use. (Hers is Bertha.) Then, when fear flares up, you can say it out loud: No, Bertha. I'm going to do it anyway.

Today, Elysia teaches all of this through the Brilliance Method, built on what she calls her five pillars of aligned living: Intuition, Authenticity, Alignment, Action, and Abundance.

What struck me most is how practical she keeps it. Intuition starts with simply making space to hear yourself, whether that's a morning meditation or ten quiet minutes on a lunch break. From there, it's about noticing whether your choices come from fear or from love, caring for your mental and physical health, and then actually taking action.

She doesn't call herself a money coach. She describes herself as someone who creates action takers, and much of her work is with spiritual and creative entrepreneurs who want to grow their income in a way that's fully authentic to who they are. If a strategy doesn't feel right, she wants her clients to say so. A community on Facebook isn't the answer for someone who hates being on Facebook.

Our conversation naturally turned to money: the things we've been told about it, and why so many of us still treat it as taboo. Elysia pointed out how often she sees clients play down their success, sometimes because a partner earns less, sometimes because they don't want their kids to think a certain way about money.

She shared a story from her production days that I loved. She'd mentioned to a coworker that she was making $50 an hour. The coworker, who did the same job, was making $35, and was upset that Elysia had said anything at all because now she was feeling less valued and didn't think she could get a raise. Elysia saw it differently. She offered to back her colleague up so she could go ask for what she is worth. Her colleague got the raise.

It ties back to one of Elysia's favorite teachings from A Course in Miracles: "In my defenselessness, my safety lies." In plainer terms, you don't have to defend or explain yourself. Just share your truth with kindness and keep it simple. She told me about a client who was preparing a long case to argue a contract dispute. Elysia's advice? The contract already says it. Send it, show up to the call, and let it stand.

This is where our two worlds really overlapped. I see business owners undercharge all the time, and Elysia had three pieces of advice I'll be repeating for a long time.

If your rate prices out people you'd love to serve, she suggested a small, application-based scholarship program rather than lowering your rate across the board.

Elysia has a quarterly reminder on her calendar to give herself a raise, whether that means higher prices, fewer hours, or more vacation. She walks clients through a quick exercise: pick your current rate, then push it to a number that feels genuinely uncomfortable. Pull it back until it feels exciting rather than scary. Then check the low end, too, and notice how undercharging feels. Somewhere in the middle is the number you can sell with confidence.

She learned this firsthand. Years ago, when she didn't want to take one-on-one clients, she set her rate at $1,000 an hour, assuming nobody would book. People booked like crazy. Later, she dropped her rate to $300 to fill her calendar. Nobody booked. Clients, it turns out, often read our price as a reflection of how much we believe in our own work, and on the energetic level they want to match the frequency of who they're buying from.

Drawing on Andrea Quinn's work, Elysia teaches that we each come in with foundational soul traits. Some of hers (and mine) are kindness, loyalty, creativity, generosity, and truth. Those traits become our requirements for the people we choose to work with.

From a financial perspective, I can't overstate how much this matters. The wrong clients cost you far more than the revenue they bring in.

If there's one phrase I'll be carrying with me, it's this one. Elysia explained that when we act as a lifesaver, we're trying to pull someone out of the water while they're panicking, and they often drag us down with them. It's exhausting, and it's usually underpaid.

That philosophy shapes how she runs her own events. At Clarity Camp, her one requirement is that attendees take responsibility for their own energy. Tears and breakthroughs are welcome. But it's a shared space, and everyone gets to be seen.

Elysia's work comes back to one simple truth: you already know more than you think you do. The work is in getting quiet enough to hear it, brave enough to act on it, and confident enough to stop asking permission.

Whether that means raising your rates, letting go of a client who isn't aligned, or simply telling your invisible jury that today you're doing it anyway, she believes every one of us has a light worth shining.