If you’ve been wondering what it actually takes to step into embodied leadership and clear your creative channel, this one’s for you.

There’s a question that’s been moving through my field lately, and I imagine it might be moving through for some of you too.

What does it actually take to become a clear channel – for our work, for wealth, for the fullest expression of who we are?

I used to think the answer was more strategy, refining of my message until it was perfect. But the deeper I’ve gone into my own journey, the more I’ve realized that becoming a clear channel has very little to do with what we add… and everything to do with what we’re willing to see, feel, and move.

The Messy Beginning of Embodiment

When I look back on my path into embodiment, I can see how many hard things had to surface first.

Building a business from a place of force. Craving structure and safety while also longing for freedom in my feminine expression. Not knowing how to hold proper boundaries with clients and friends. Over-giving until I was depleted. People-pleasing patterns running quietly in the background of everything I created.

For a long time, I didn’t even realize how much those energies were shaping my field. I thought I was doing everything right. I was showing up, creating content, serving my clients, building offers. But underneath all of that doing, there was a frequency of disempowerment that I hadn’t yet been willing to look at.

And that’s the thing about embodiment – it doesn’t let us skip the uncomfortable parts.

The journey often begins with everything that feels unresolved rising to the surface. Not to punish us or slow us down, but so we can actually see it. So we can move it. So we can take radical responsibility for becoming the kind of leaders we’re here to be.

This is what I mean when I talk about clearing the channel. It’s not about becoming someone new. It’s about removing everything that’s been blocking the truth of who we already are.

What Embodied Leadership Actually Means

I’ve spent a lot of time sitting with what it really means to be an embodied leader. And what I’ve come to understand is that it’s not about having it all together. It’s not about being the most polished, the most confident, or the most successful person in the room.

To me, being an embodied leader means something very specific.

It means being vulnerable and real about ourselves – actually sharing the difficult things we’re navigating as creators, as well as what inspires us. It means developing safe space for others because we’ve been willing to walk through our own depths first. Not performing healing or growth, but genuinely living it.

Being an embodied leader means making decisions that your soul knows are the right choices.. even when everything around you is telling you that you shouldn’t make that decision. Even when your mind is loud with doubt. Even when the people closest to you don’t understand.

There’s a kind of courage required here that doesn’t get talked about enough. The courage to trust yourself when no one else does. The courage to follow an inner knowing that doesn’t always make logical sense. The courage to disappoint people in service of your truth.

To me, this is the essence of embodied leadership.

Stepping Forward Before You Feel Ready

One of the biggest shifts in my understanding of embodiment came when I realized that it doesn’t wait until we feel ready.

I spent years thinking I needed to heal more, learn more, and grow more before I could fully step into my leadership. I thought there was some finish line I needed to cross.. some level of worthiness I needed to achieve before I could claim what I knew was mine.

But embodiment doesn’t work that way.

It asks us to step forward anyway. To trust the knowing in our bodies even when our minds are spinning with doubt. To let ourselves be seen before we’ve polished every edge.

This was one of the most uncomfortable lessons I’ve had to learn. And it’s also been one of the most liberating.

Because when we stop waiting for permission – from ourselves, from others, from some imaginary future version of us who has it all figured out – we start living in the truth of who we are right now. And that truth, even in its messiness, is magnetic.

The Shift That Happens When We Commit

When we actually commit to this path of embracing all of ourselves; the light and the shadow, the confident and the uncertain, the healed and the still-healing – something profound begins to shift.

We feel aligned with our medicine. The work we do starts to feel like an extension of who we are rather than something we have to push ourselves to create.

We start attracting people who are genuinely drawn to what we offer. Not because we’ve perfected our marketing, but because our presence carries a frequency that speaks to the people meant to find us.

We show up to serve in our businesses in a way that feels inspiring rather than depleting. The hustle falls away, and what remains is something that actually nourishes us.

We allow all different parts of ourselves to be expressed – the soft and the fierce, the structured and the wild. We stop fragmenting ourselves to fit into boxes that were never meant for us.

We feel healthy and balanced in our relationship to time. The urgency that used to drive everything starts to soften, and we find a rhythm that actually works for our bodies and our lives.

We feel empowered in our relationship to money. Scarcity loosens its grip, and we begin to trust that we can be supported while doing work that matters to us.

These are the codes of embodiment that so many of us are trying to turn on. And they don’t come from doing more, hustling harder, or figuring everything out first. They come from doing the inner work. From clearing the channel. From becoming so rooted in ourselves that our presence alone becomes magnetic.

The Inner Work Really Does Changes Everything

What I know for certain is that this work of becoming embodied in our leadership, our creativity, and our service changes everything.

It changes how we show up. It changes what we attract. It changes how we feel in our own skin.

And it all starts with a decision. A decision to stop waiting. A decision to look at the patterns that have been running in the background. A decision to take radical responsibility for becoming the clear channel you’re here to be.

You don’t need more qualifications. You don’t need to heal one more thing before you’re ready. You don’t need anyone else’s permission.

You just need to decide that you’re ready to meet yourself fully. It all just starts with a decision, even if you don’t know what it’s going to look like.

A Gentle Practice for Your Body

Notice where your body braces when you think about stepping into more visibility or leadership. That tension often holds the story of why you’ve been holding back. Place a hand there, breathe into it, and let your system know it’s safe to soften.

Reflection for Your Soul

Ask yourself: What part of me is ready to be claimed – even if I don’t feel fully ready yet? Sometimes the invitation isn’t to wait until we feel worthy. It’s to step forward as the claiming.

Bringing This Into Your Work

Let your embodiment lead your strategy. When you’re rooted in your shadows as well as your light and dedicate your energy to loving yourself deeply, the right clients find you. The right opportunities appear. Your work stops feeling like pushing and starts feeling inspired. Build from that place.

Xoxo, Lauren