Exploring Life & Business with Rachel Schwartzman Murphy of Mindsettings

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rachel Schwartzman Murphy.

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 backstory with our readers?
My story follows a through-line of pursuing what brings me both joy and challenge — and always through connection with others.

In college, I became a camp counselor at an equestrian overnight camp. It was so rewarding that when a year-round position opened up before I’d even graduated — despite having an art education degree in hand — I took it. Over six years as equestrian director, I was also involved in event planning and discovered I had a knack for creating experiences for people, both logistically and aesthetically.

After leaving camp and starting a family, I launched a wedding and event design business. About eight years in, I noticed that what I was enjoying most wasn’t the events themselves — it was the relationships and the emotional support I was providing to clients. That realization led me to pursue a life coaching certification.

I’ve been coaching full-time since, and a few years ago, I added Enneagram tools to my practice. Today, I work with people who are ready to do deeper personal work to change repetitive life patterns and live a more fulfilling life.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Of course, there were obstacles along the way, and many more to come!

Trying to grow a business is hard. Trying to grow a business while growing a family is extra hard. Trying to grow a business while growing a family, while my husband also tries to grow a business, is extra, extra hard.

But I’ve always been surrounded by entrepreneurs, two of the most important being my parents. I learned from a young age about the ups and downs of being the owner, and in some ways, I guess I expected the obstacles. When you know the obstacles are going to happen, it’s easier to accept them as just hard moments to move through, learn, pivot, and try again.

We’ve been impressed with Mindsettings, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My husband works in IT, helping people who are frustrated because their technology won’t do what they want, no matter how hard they try to fix it. The moment he gets in and adjusts the right settings, everything shifts — not just the problem, but the person’s whole sense of what’s possible.

I do the same thing, but for life issues. My clients come to me frustrated because some area of life isn’t working the way they want it to. Instead of technology settings, I work with the mind, emotions, and behaviors. We all came into this world with certain tendencies and proclivities, and then we learn what to think and how to act from what we see and hear. When we recognize those habitual things we do, we have the opportunity to change our daily and life experiences.

That’s where the Enneagram comes in. It’s a personality system that reveals a person’s core motivations — essentially, the factory settings they came with. I help people understand what those settings are, how to access them, and how to change them if they choose. Whether the presenting issue is relationships, career, finances, or personal growth, it all comes back to mindset — and the Enneagram is one of the most precise tools I’ve found for getting to the core of it.

I work with individual clients, partnerships, and teams through coaching, training, and speaking.

Do you have any advice for those just starting out?
The only way to it is through it.

We set big goals, telling ourselves that once we get there, we’ll feel success, satisfaction, pride, or a sense of worthiness. But all those feelings are available in the middle part when we don’t really know where we are or what we’re doing. Feeling accomplished and worthy while you’re working for more is the secret. The messy middle isn’t the thing keeping us from living our best life; the messy middle IS life.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://mindsettings.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_s_murphy/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindsettingsrachel
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelschwartzmanmurphy/