Today we’d like to introduce you to Rachel D. Greenwell.
Hi Rachel, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers.
I began my career by having a lot of problems. I know that sounds funny…but it’s true. I was just a messed up young woman heavily addicted to drugs and traumatized that wanted to get better. I had a spiritual awakening on Oct. 13, 2014, that led me to enter recovery for my ailments. I spent a lot of time alone during this process. I learned to meditate and balance my chakra system. I put my bare feet in the grass and allowed the sun to fill me with healing energy. I sat in chairs in counselors’ offices each week and poured my heart out. I cried with snot running down my face with women I never met before in support group circles. I read countless self-help books and journaled every night. I cried….a lot. I forgave myself and others. I healed.
I got really good at healing things that are tough to heal thanks to the fact that I had a lot of “hard to heal” problems. I began to share my stories and the things that I had learned with other people in support groups. People gave me feedback that I was really good at helping them. I became known as the person in my town who knew answers to difficult questions and solutions to difficult problems. I became known as someone who can help. I enjoyed helping people. So when someone said “hey my cousin is struggling and I thought maybe you could help her….can you give her a call” I would gladly say yes.
I freely gave my services to whoever asked for them as it enriched my life and my own recovery to help others. I realized it was a gift and my passion and began to take it more seriously. I took a job as a peer support specialist in mental health. It was a low-paying entry-level job…but it paid a tiny bit more than the gas station I was working at and I got to do something I loved so I was happy to take the job.
Somewhere along the lines in my journey I found myself at the Louisville School of Metaphysics and completed a Master of Consciousness Program. I got a lot of training in mental health through the peer support position and I also went to school for my psychology degree. But, I had a bigger vision and felt called to a spiritual mission with a large reach and impact. I felt I couldn’t do that within the confines of the mental health organizations.
A life coaching certification became my solution to this problem because I could work with people all over the world and charge whatever prices I wanted to create a career that worked for my lifestyle. I began to do this slowly but surely and got a few bucks for life coaching. For a few years, I had been creating a small following on social media who would watch me do motivational videos on my early morning runs in the park. I knew I was building my dream life with these pieces to my puzzle but I didn’t really know what I was doing or what the big picture was.
After several years dedicated to the mental health field, I was fired for budget cuts from my job. I had just given birth to my son Phoenix and my husband was supporting our household while I drew unemployment checks. I was still coaching here and there and would commonly take clients to the park to walk while we did sessions.
One day, after saying the same things for the zillionth time to a client about needing to learn her worth…I realized just how major this whole self-worth issue was. I had said this same stuff so many times to so many different types of people with so many different types of problems. Why was this such a problem? And more importantly why weren’t we as a human race more focused on fixing it?
I kept walking that day even after my client had left. I went into prayer with God and I said:
“Okay, God…I see this giant problem and I’ve been telling people the solution. But I know there are soooooo many people in the world with this issue…more than I could ever help in 1 hr sessions even if I filled my entire calender back to back forever. I know the issue is MASSIVE and I know I have the solution. God, if there is a way to do it BIGGER…I’m down for that.”
That prayer changed my life.
Two weeks later God showed in a vision the cover of my book How to Wear a Crown: a practical guide to knowing your Worth. I saw it in my mind standing in my hallway, me wearing black with that Crown on my head. I heard the words to the introduction begin to flow through my mind:
“Hi, I’m Rachel and I wear a Crown. Well, not literally…except for the one on the cover of this book…”
I scrambled for my laptop. A $300 Chromebook with a broken screen. I pulled up a word doc and typed every single thing I heard flow into my mind.
I was shocked by the assignment God was giving me. I told God:
“I can’t do this…I can’t write a book? How am I supposed to write a book?”
The answer I was told was:
“16 and 16….you will write the rough draft in 16 days and you will publish in 16 weeks”
I thought that idea was insane lol.
Reluctantly, I create a plan. The average self-help book had about 50,000 words. So to reach that in 16 days I had to write 3,125 words a day.
I also, thought that idea was insane. lol
But I continued.
And it happened.
I wrote most of the time breastfeeding typing with 1 hand but I did do it. I had a completed rough draft in exactly 16 days and I published the book 16 weeks later on 11.11.2019 at 11:11 am
That’s how I got here….by being a human who had problems, by focusing on myself and healing, by prioritizing a deep and personal connection with God, by being willing to serve freely, and by being open to receiving divine guidance from my Creator and align with the path that creator wants for me.
Now How to Wear a Crown is inspiring women all over the world to learn their Worth. I run a divinely sacred program teaching women to deeply connect to themselves and to their God in my online course How to Wear a Crown: uplevel your life in love health and wealth that uses the material from the book to bring the teachings to life.
I’m surrounded by love, health, and wealth. I am literally living my dream life. I can say with full confidence… “my cup runneth over.”
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
There was struggle after struggle. It was hard.
I didn’t know how to publish a book. I ended up self-publishing because I couldn’t afford to publish with a company. I had to do all the editing and cover creating myself to self-publish. I cried my eyes out one night trying to figure out how to make the margins the correct size in a word doc in order for the self-publishing program to accept my copy of the transcript.
I couldn’t figure out how to make the kind of money I needed to sustain life in my business. I had what I would confidently call a mental breakdown one day crying in my husband’s lap when I realized I was working my ass off day after day and my business bank account was in the negative over $300 dollars after my expenses.
I had covid 5 times during the pandemic and was sick with it during the creation of my program.
There was a long time period right after publishing where I was basically begging people to buy it and purchasing copies of the book out of my own pocket and giving them away for free just to get it “out there”.
Yeah, a lot of struggles. It was pretty hard.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I would call myself the creator of my own reality. Life is something we create every day.
But I also do all my own course creation. I create my own graphics and design. I love the creative process behind branding and the visual aspects of my online presence. That part is really fun for me and gets me excited.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
People can find me at my website first and foremost www.racheldgreenwell.com. They can also find me @racheldgreenwell on social media Facebook and Instagram mostly.
They can reach out to support@racheldgreenwell.com for assistance from my team with navigating the processes.
I have low-ticket self-guided options and high-ticket options guided by me. And of course, they read my book How to Wear a Crown: a practical guide to knowing your Worth on Amazon which they can find a link to from my website.
There is also my free group on Facebook called How to Wear a Crown: uplevel your life in love, health, and wealth where I share free content every single day.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.racheldgreenwell.com
- Instagram: @racheldgreenwell
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/racheldgreenwell
- Twitter: @racheldgreenwel
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/racheldgreenwell
Image Credits
Larry Green and Hair & Makeup Artist: Samantha Ta
