Genevieve Taeger: Divine Channeling, Spiritual Awakening & Building a Soul-Led Business | Ep53

Genevieve Taeger is a Bestselling Author, Channeller, & Soul Purpose Coach. She Channels Powerful Healing and Wisdom Teachings from the Goddesses and Benevolent Realm. Since Genevieve Taeger was 16, she started receiving Visitations, Initiations, and Divine Guidance from Ascended Masters, Angels, Goddesses, and the Benevolent Realm. She kept this a secret until her late 30s when she shared these teachings from her home. Genevieve felt a Calling to Awaken others to the Power of their Holy Spirit and assist them with discovering and Living their Purpose. She kept ignoring this Calling until she had a breakdown when she turned 50 and dared to quit her job, sell her house and take a stand for a million others worldwide to Heal & Awaken the Goddess Within.

In this episode of the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast, Christian sits down with Genevieve Taeger—bestselling author, divine channel, and soul purpose guide. After decades in corporate leadership, Genevieve followed a powerful inner calling that led her to leave it all behind, awaken the goddess within, and devote her life to spiritual service.

She shares how breakdowns can become breakthroughs, what it means to connect with the Divine Mind, and how channeling over 70 benevolent beings transformed her life and business.

If you’ve ever felt the urge to leave behind a life that no longer fits and step into your spiritual gifts, this conversation offers deep truth, clear practices, and divine inspiration to help you remember who you really are—and boldly live it.

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Core Themes

• Spiritual Awakening at Midlife
• Channeling Divine Wisdom
• The Divine Mind & Higher Self Connection
• Sacred Feminine Energy for All Genders
• Leaving Corporate to Follow a Spiritual Calling
• Building a Spirit-Led Business
• Courageously “Coming Out” as a Channeler
• Awakening the Goddess Within

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Christian
What is up, beautiful people? This is Christian from the successful spiritual podcast. And today I'm very honored and excited to have Genevieve Tager on the podcast. She is a bestselling author, channel, soul purpose coach, and she channels powerful healing wisdom teachings from the goddesses and benevolent realm. Since Genevieve was 16, she started receiving visitations, initiations and divine guidance from ascended masters.

Angels, goddesses, and the benevolent realm. She kept this a secret until her late 30s when she shared these teachings from her home. Genevieve felt a calling to awaken others to the power of the Holy Spirit and assist them with discovering and living their purpose. She kept ignoring this calling until she had a breakdown when she turned 50 and dared to quit her job, sell her house, and take a stand for a million others worldwide to heal and awaken the goddess within. Welcome to the show.

Genevieve Taeger
Thank you. It's an honor to be here.

Christian
Beautiful. tell us with your brave decision to quit your job, how did that come about? How did spirit help you? mean, it feels like you've been guided by your allies, Senate masters, higher beings for a long time. Tell us about the situation in the quitting the job. You were torn between this and that, or was a very clear decision, and you're just like, that's it, you know? Tell us about that.

Genevieve Taeger
So to be honest, I was nudged since I was 30 to quit my job. And I was too afraid because you know that feeling like, well, you have to have the proper amount of money in your bank account. And if you don't, then you can't build a business and so forth. And I was very like kind of, I'm going to make a joke about German. was very like, it's got to be.

Christian
very German. I was going to say the same thing. was like, oh, you are a very good German staying there in your job for until you're 15. Very good conditioning. I like it.

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah. It's got to be a certain way, you know? And ⁓ so that's, I felt so strongly, you have to save money, you have to, it has to be a certain way. And I was very pigheaded, you know, very strong headed in that sense. And I really believe my story.

So this is what kept me staying in the corporate world. I mean, there was a benefit in staying in the corporate world is that ⁓ I really learned how to become a leader in that position so that I can do what I do now. know, learned at first I was afraid to be in a boardroom of just 10 people. I'd be shaking and then, you know, now I can stand on a stage in front of thousands. It doesn't matter to me. I feel totally fine. It's exciting actually.

So I kept hearing this calling and what I had done was slowly I would do like workshops or ⁓ like in-person kind of events locally on weekends and sometimes weeknights. But it still didn't give me the money that I needed to be able to quit my job. And it wasn't until, I remember that feeling, I had worked for 30 years up until that point.

And 21 of those was in the automotive manufacturing. And that's very, it's not easy to be in that position and be in a leadership role. It's there, and also with automotive, everything is rush, rush, rush. You've got to, you and with that feeling, I felt very stressed over that experience and

Christian
Great job, man.

Yeah.

Genevieve Taeger
I remember thinking, it was two years prior, I think I was 48. And I remember thinking, if I, by the time I'm 50, nothing changes in this company and things don't get easier, because every year you keep thinking, and I know many people have thought this, it'll get easier. Systems will be in place and then the life will get easier. Then I'm going to have more time and I won't have to work late hours and all this kind of stuff. But it never got easier because the corporation...

the head office always came up with some more initiatives that we had to do. And the law always came up with more initiatives that we had to do because I was in health and safety. I also had a background in environmental. And I said to myself, if by the time I turn 50, which was gonna be my 20 year ward, but I actually had been there 21 years and nothing changes, I'm leaving.

And I tell you, so I got that award, that 20 year thing on the Friday.

and I had turned 50 on, I think on the Sunday. And so I wasn't thinking about that vow I made back when I was 48, completely forgot about it. And then 50, I mean, on Saturday morning, I woke up and I started hyperventilating. And that was basically the beginning of the breakdown. So I went to the doctor and I said, look, I need time off. And then what happened was I saw,

Two therapists, so when you take time off here in Canada with, if you're stressed, kind of related to work, what they try to do is they get you to see therapists and then they are trying to assess when you're ready to come back to work. And so with these two therapists, what happened was I was actually talking to them and saying, you know, I actually have a bigger dream and I wanna have my own business and I wanna help people.

And they said, okay, well, let's spend some time together to figure out whether or not that's the right fit for you, because we don't want you to make rash decisions just because you had this breakdown. And I appreciated that. And so we spent three months together where I was talking and I was sharing with them and I shared all the things that I had to do in the workplace. And they said, I can't believe you didn't have a breakdown sooner with all the responsibilities I was overseeing.

a thousand people, the safety of a thousand people. So there was a lot of responsibilities. And we had three facilities and all kinds of shifts and all that kind of stuff. So long story short, that is what made me, it was actually the breakdown that made me feel like there's no way in hell am I ever gonna have a breakdown again. And I'm going to...

Christian
Hmm.

Genevieve Taeger
My dad passed away when he was just about to turn 70. And I thought, you know what, like, we don't know how long we live. What if I only live 10 more years and I wait until retirement? You know, it's such a stupid thing. And so that's what I did. I thought that's it. I had my partner who had his house and I had my house. And so I thought, you know what,

Christian
Let's be.

Genevieve Taeger
sell your house and use the money from that to be able to create your business and do the things you need to do.

Christian
Yeah, wonderful. Well, I love that you broke that lineage for all of us. And I think it's very brave to do so because I think the older you get, more. How do I say this? I guess you learn to let go when you get older because life is kind of like a wheel, like you rise. I don't know, 40, 45, 50, somewhere around there.

And then you're at the peak and then things like health, mental health, you know, it starts to decline. And then with all this going on in your life, you didn't like give in to the fear, but you said, no, I'll be brave. Like I'll choose love. I love myself and I make this decision.

Yeah, commend you for that because a lot of people just, it's a lot easier to say, you know, another 10 years and I'll be done, you know? But, so yeah, kudos to you. I don't know why, but I feel the prompt to talk about Germany.

I'm from Germany, your parents are from Germany. What's up with Germany? Like, what do you feel about Germany? Where are they going? What's up with their culture? I love them so much. Yeah, what comes to you, I guess?

Genevieve Taeger
Well, it's an interesting question because I never lived there and I was just brought up by German parents. They actually spoke English to us and they were really, you know, I'm from Canada and they were really into, they really wanted to be here in Canada and be Canadians and all that kind of stuff. So my dad left though, because he was a spiritual guy. He was a seeker.

Christian
Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

Genevieve Taeger
and he was reading philosophy and all this kind of stuff. And I remember he said to me that it tired him that they would always worry about what the neighbors would think, and making sure that the curtains are a certain way and all this kind of stuff, you know. My brother one time lived in Germany for a couple years and...

⁓ He had to get, they told him he had to get some kind of blinds and that he had to have them closed at a certain time and all this kind of stuff. know, that, of course, he's now, he's three years older than me. So that was 30, about 30 years ago. I'm sure times have changed since that time.

Christian
my god, I love it. You guys are the

Yeah,

think, you know, Germany for me, I grew up there until was 22, 25. I ⁓ started traveling when I was 22, so I of left the country little bit. And also similar reasons to your dad, because I was very spiritually inclined to seek and discover myself. ⁓ I feel the energy, you know how different countries have different energy bodies, so to say. ⁓ Germany is a little dense.

You know, and I think all the Germans have incredibly beautiful hearts. The societal conditioning is very strong. And that's what I don't I didn't like long term there, and I was fortunate enough that I could leave and travel and do the things I wanted to do and actually ended up in the US. Didn't really intend to live here, ⁓ but met my now wife.

married and everything started to, you know, move in this direction. So it's very coincidental in that way. She actually is a teacher of A Course in Miracles, which is a book that you might be familiar with. yeah, Germans, I love them so much. They're very dear to my heart. Anyways, so I think currently in Germany, it's just like

Like what's missing there is like people just gotta stand up, you know, I think they're still a little bit too comfortable to Action change like French people like in France like when something happens like they they protest they're gonna see German people like Only if it's like really something out of this world, you know, they they can take a lot Which has good and bad sides so Yeah

Genevieve Taeger
Mmm.

Christian
Anyways, let's shift the conversation back to your business and how you decided to start it. So how many years ago did you quit your job and then start to get into spiritual coaching and teaching?

Genevieve Taeger
So I quit six years ago and ⁓ got into that right away basically and started, yeah, and it's been a success. It's been a huge success. And some people here are also wondering about ⁓ developing businesses themselves and financially and all that kind of stuff. The kind of... ⁓

way that I make money now is far superior than I could have ever imagined. And the beauty is that I'm helping people around the world. And not only that, but the amazing experience that I have with people is that people from around the world are messaging me either through Instagram or sending me an email or something like that. And they're in tears. They're so grateful that I came out to do what I'm doing.

so that they can change their lives. And to me, that's just like, whenever I hear that, it's just amazing to be able to have that experience. And it was funny because when I quit, I made a vow to myself, another vow. I made a vow that I would do whatever I get guided to do from now on, from this point forward.

So when my higher self will tell me to go do something, I will go do it. No questions asked. And I have been guided to do things I had never thought that I would be doing. So when I quit, I thought, I'll just do the, I'll do some healing for people, teach Reiki and all that kind of stuff. And the guidance I got was completely...

off the charts in a totally different direction. And I just trusted the journey. And eventually I was told that I needed to write my book. And not only that, but that there are many books for me to write and this is what you're going to write and so forth. And then next thing you know, I start channeling and told that I need to come out as a channeler, which freaked me out.

Christian
Hmm. ⁓

Genevieve Taeger
To come out as a channeler. I was a guest on a huge podcast and I got this email inviting me on the show and they had asked me to channel. And I said, well, I'll channel in a situation where I feel like I'll channel in that moment. And then they came back with another message and another message and another message. And finally I had to say yes.

And that was my first time where I was publicly coming out and you know, like my family, my friends, like no one knew this part of me. And I had to deal with any repercussions that people would think.

and my whole book is channeled and talking about all these beings that coming through, goddesses, and goddesses were a new thing for me actually. Ascended Masters was something that I had always been connecting with, but goddesses was something that I had to kind of make peace with to allow them to come through.

Christian
Tell us about

some of the goddesses you channel. Like maybe, yeah, some archetypes, you know, because there's so many.

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah,

there's so many. ⁓ Interesting thing is one came through that I had never heard of before and her name was ⁓ Petama, goddess Petama. And she came with this brown and golden aura and she was the one that told me too that I need to start writing now. And she told me she's the mother of mothers and that's apparently what her name means.

And when I looked her up afterwards, she wasn't, no one had channeled her. She wasn't on the internet. However, they built a temple for her in India, in a small village in India, this beautiful temple. Yeah, so she's one. Goddess Athena is a very common one that many people ⁓ connect with. Goddess Isis, although,

Athena and Isis are actually Senate masters, but they're known as goddesses. ⁓ People don't realize that they actually did live at some point. ⁓ so those are the ones and some fairies have come through and just different nature spirits. Yeah.

Christian
I love it.

Yeah, fairies are great. They're like little, yeah, they are so happy. I love the fairies. Beautiful. And when you discovered, you know, that you were able to channel, like how does it now impact your, your, your life and your business? Like, I mean, when somebody comes to you now for a product or service, like what can they expect that you offer?

Genevieve Taeger
So I help groups of people at a time. One-on-one would be, it's rare that I do one-on-one. ⁓ And what I do do sometimes is I do live channeled events for the whole group of people.

which is pretty cool. And sometimes I might pick some people from the audience that I'll channel some messages to. But primarily the goal is that I've learned how to always connect to the higher mind, the divine mind, and to also connect to other ascended masters, other beings and so forth, and receive information that people need to hear. So I'm able to kind of coach from that perspective and

I'm kind of like half here, half there, and I'm listening to the information that comes for these people. And so primarily what I'm doing is I'm helping people to awaken to their spirit, kind of discover that, how can they connect with it? And then when they do and they discover that part of themselves, then I teach them how can they actually discover what their purpose is, what their spirit wants them to be.

in life because what their spirit wants them to be is much greater than what they think they are to be. And it should feel a little scary. And then the other thing I teach them is how can they embrace this part of themselves? How can they because they will feel that feeling of this power of who they really are, and it can be scary. So how can they step into that?

And along the way, there are all these limiting beliefs and the corporate mentality mindset and all this kind of stuff that needs clearing, that needs to work on. my book actually takes them through all these teachings. And ⁓ so I help people to go through these teachings basically.

Christian
Hmm.

beautiful and connect to their own inner voice.

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah.

Christian
Wonderful. And if somebody has never experienced that, like what would you say, like is there a quick little exercise you can leave with us and the audience that they can do at home to connect with their guide or one of their guides? Or is there maybe a download you would rather send that to them? Yeah.

Genevieve Taeger
It's a great question. So the first thing I always recommend is that people ⁓ feel into their heart space like that place, I call it the sacred heart. So it's in between the center of your chest and your throat, that area. And you feel into that heart, you feel love into that place. And when you go into that feeling of love, at the same time, you place your attention on the divine mind.

which is the soul star chakra, a foot above your head, 30 centimeters above your head. And you stay centered in the heart and your attention there. And what you do is you ask information that you want to know. And when you go into this heart center area, it kind of becomes like a vortex, like a portal of energy.

that kind of pulls you in and takes you straight up to that field. And I often share too, once I was taught this information from my guides in higher self, I ended up going to Europe to do some business traveling and I went into these churches and what I, you know, we were brought up spiritual. We weren't brought up with religion.

So I decided, I'm gonna go in these old churches. The old churches, as you know, in Europe are much older than any churches here. And there's a lot of history with how they do all that in the interior. But what amazed me was that in the statues, in the churches, they're pointing here at the heart, and they've got like a heart here, pointing here and they're pointing up there like this. And at that space,

And there's like this thing up here. It's like a golden sun that they have. And that's the divine mind. And so they're actually saying in order to go and experience your spirit or the Holy Spirit, you go here and here at the same time. And this is when you can tap into what's known as the divine mind. So this is where you can access your spirit, your higher self, the wisdom from your higher self.

And the more you do it, you start to also open up your meridian systems and all that to be able to experience connections with angels, with ascended masters, with other benevolent beings and so forth. And that's also the best way to connect with benevolent beings rather than beings that are kind of lost souls. Because when people connect in this quadrant here, instead,

Christian
Hmm.

Genevieve Taeger
kind of the way if you're thinking about the way you think about what's one plus one plus two plus five, you're thinking in this field. And when you do that, what you're doing is you're in a much lower vibration. And so you're actually in a different dimension where there's the area of people that have passed on, but also some of them are lost souls. But when you can ascend yourself to this higher field,

then you go into a much higher vibration and you're in a completely different dimension, you're in the ascended field. And so the information you receive will be from the wise ⁓ intelligence, the truth, the divine truth.

Christian
Beautiful. And why? I mean, to make it very, to break it down very, very basic.

say the word dumb but why should someone connect with their divine mind?

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah, because there's so many people who are living in the limited mind. The limited mind is the one where you think that the brain is the one that has all the answers. But if you think about Einstein, Einstein or other beings who have created something from nothing, they could not have gotten it from their limited brain.

Because the brain is only doing what it already knows. It cannot receive new information. The new information is in the field of intelligence. And we are designed to connect to that field of intelligence. It's just that when we were born and brought up by certain parents, we were never taught that. The schooling system never teaches that. And the schooling system teaches us to stay small and to believe in

that we need to go to university and college and then we develop a profession and then we go into the corporate world and become slaves for the corporation basically. And never tap into the brilliance that we all are, the uniqueness, the power that we are, the high vibration that we are. So this has got to change. I really want this to change for the younger generation so that we don't keep repeating.

Because right now, the parents are my age of the young generation, the 20-year-olds. And what are they doing? They're teaching their kids, you've got to go to university, you've got to go to college. Instead of thinking, hey, you know what? You can actually be an amazing entrepreneur. You can make millions. You don't have to stick with just $100,000 a year. You can have freedom. You can build a life where you're making a huge impact in the world. You're someone amazing.

Christian
Hmm.

Genevieve Taeger
Like, can you imagine if every parent did that to their kids? The world would change.

Christian
It's incredible. It's happening.

It's happening. I feel a lot of my friends and younger generation, I'm 33, friends of my age who have kids, I have kids too. My boy is seven. And if you have that level of awareness of instilling something different in your kids, you will. And so a little example out of my life is...

I really want Ari to know that he's not a YouTube watcher, but a YouTube creator. So he just turned seven and last year when he was six, I created a YouTube channel for him and with him.

It's nothing super serious. We don't do something every week. It's something very easy for him to feel into it. But it's basically just a little streaming setup for his little Switch and he can play his game, be online. I don't show his face because I think he's a little bit too young for that. yeah, he's even saying, I'm a YouTuber. Imagine you have that in your DNA or in your identity with six years old. I am a YouTuber.

Good luck with that. know, like imagine that guy is 16, 18. He's going to do, I mean, yeah, he's, he's fine. I can stop educating him. Um, so yeah, it's, it's, it's happening. lot of, a lot of friends that are somewhat creative and, um, somewhat awake, they, you know, bring that.

Genevieve Taeger
That's awesome. That's fabulous.

Christian
And we know as a younger generation what's possible with technology. Like it's just incredible. Like this podcast after it's being recorded is automatically being transcribed. It will be cut into short videos. They will be automatically scheduled. You know what I mean? It's like, we know what you can do. You just have to say, I'm going to do it.

It's really crazy. Like I think in five, 10 years, let's just say 10 years, in 10 years when my boy is 17, he's going to be like, what do want to do? Boom, done, business built. Right. It's just the question then in 10 years when AI is so far that we literally can launch anything in a button click and establish a legal company name and the marketing and the logo, website, everything in one click within five seconds.

is really then coming down to your core. Like who do you want to be and what do you want to carry out into the world? So I think this question of exploring your purpose and yourself, discovery what you want to bring to the world, that's never going to go away.

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah, but I do see that there will be one challenge with all of this AI happening is that people will be so focused on that and they will not connect to their higher self. They will lose that. will not, you know, let's just say people who are not brought up spiritual and they just, they're so focused on this. The AI is great. I totally agree with you.

How can they also realize that there's something behind them that has something unique to bring and to really feel confident standing in that person who they are so that they too can teach their generation when they start to have kids. This is one concern I have about ⁓ that.

AI.

Christian
Yeah, I think AI will be very dominant. will be, I mean, in 10 years, AI is going to be a part of your life at age two or three. It's going to talk to you. It's going to be on your phone, on your stationary device. You can talk to it, play this music, play that music. mean, yeah.

I think that being able to make space to tune into your higher self is something that still definitely has to be taught through family, you know.

Genevieve Taeger
Mm-hmm.

Christian
Yeah, very similar to today with or without AI, you know? Like how do you get exposed to it, you know?

Genevieve Taeger
Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly.

Christian
Yeah, very interesting. tell us a little bit about anything that helps you staying inspired currently in your life. Like who or what inspires you most in your spiritual and entrepreneurial journey?

Genevieve Taeger
Okay, so I'm a bit of an oddball. ⁓ Everything I do, I'm always connected to the other side, to my higher self. All the creations, the ideas, they're continually coming through me. And so I find that I don't have time to get inspired by other things. ⁓

because these ideas I just have to keep working and implementing them. So it's kind of interesting. I'm a bit of a oddball, I find. Like I'm very devoted in that way.

Christian
⁓ What

are you currently channeling or bringing through in your life as a project or as...

Genevieve Taeger
So the next thing that I'm being shown as a potential, and I'm interviewing my current customers, is building an app and having something where I can come on, I can do a channeled message or a teaching and all this kind of stuff. I'm in the works with that thinking. I'm not in the building at the moment because the work involved in that, I think it could be potentially quite a bit.

And, but at the same time, I'm creating my oracle cards. So I hired an artist to do all the paintings that he did real paintings, not digital. And then we had museum photographer in Switzerland, take the photographs of the paintings and then I put them into Adobe and I created the, you know, the cards and the descriptions and all that. And that's almost done. And I'm going to get that published, hopefully printed, hopefully.

this month and out by September into the Amazon stores. And then at the same time now I'm being shown the next book to write, which is gonna be on the Holy Spirit. So it's a very simple book, whereas like the other one, Heal and Awaken the Goddess Within was about awakening to your spirit, overcoming mindset issues and so forth, like going through a whole journey. And so that's more like a workbook.

Whereas this one is more like a book you can read and you can just find it fascinating to hear about the Holy Spirit for spiritual people, not for religious, you know, the old religious concept.

Christian
Mm-hmm.

Beautiful. And what will your Oracle concept be about?

Genevieve Taeger
The oracle cards are called Heal and Awaken the Goddess Within and they are about helping you to move forward towards your purpose. So it's in alignment with the book too and helping you to overcome what's going on with you, what is it that you need to do. So it's more like an active type of oracle card deck.

It's not like, let me just give me a message. It's not like that, because it's very purpose driven. So they're focused. And the beings that came through, so I'm unusual in that way. I've already connected to over 70 beings, and they just keep coming through. And they're the ones that told me who wanted to be in the deck. Yeah.

Christian
Wow, that's

incredible. Yeah, I love when ideas and things that become tangible are channeled in that way, you know, that come from the higher realm and really are truly inspired.

Genevieve Taeger
There have been people who have said to me in the past, how do I know my passion? Like they don't know that. Is there something I don't know? Like what can I create? And if you think about it, they're thinking here, they're not in the heart area. And if they go into the heart area with that mindset, they feel nervous.

because they think that it's not possible for them to even think about being an entrepreneur as an example. They think that it has to be someone who ⁓ has that mindset. And I always say to people, look, you don't have to be an expert to be an entrepreneur. You just learn from the experts on how to be the entrepreneur, how to build a business, right?

You go to Christian to build a website. You do all these things to develop systems. You don't have to figure that all out yourself. You are the one that just figures out what is it that you can create and then the experts help you how to successfully launch that in your business. And I think people get mixed up with that and kind of worry about those things too much. And that's what holds them back from really stepping into something amazing for themselves.

Christian
Yeah, yeah, it feels like they're almost so removed from their heart space or passion or whatever. It's always just like one simple step. But if you never take the first one, you're probably not gonna take the second one. It's not hard to become an entrepreneur, just like little, little, little by little. ⁓

Genevieve Taeger
What, if you don't mind me asking, what got you into being an entrepreneur?

Christian
So my parents in Germany, they were entrepreneurs, which I think always is like a big sign when you come from a family that is entrepreneurial. And then I did the typical German path, know, gymnasium, high school diploma, bachelor diploma. And then worked at Google for six months and just saw how people

who were there for like three to five years, they kind of lost their spark. And I was like, hmm. And I was like, that's where maybe I'm gonna be when I'm older. And I don't wanna be there. I wanna be an artist, I wanna be expressive. I wanna be, can I spread my wings? I don't feel I can do that here. It's very, even back then it was already political, like Google, like that was 10 years ago. ⁓ And so I said,

I can't be happier. I have to keep looking at what makes people happy. And so I kept on, you know, I quit Google, I traveled to Bali and kind of did a lot of self-discovery and meditation. And I was like, I like this hippie life. I'm very happy. But it didn't make money.

It's like, what is this? You know, now I'm like super happy and chill, but I'm not building anything. I'm not building a life here. So I kind of went back to Germany and reassessed my situations. I have this experience, I have that diploma, what am I going to do? while I was traveling, I started web designing stuff. And it's like, like design and like functionality and making things work. ⁓ So I said, you know, let me just try to...

make this whole website thing work because I really feel it's a great service for anyone who starts a business to have a great website. And so that's where I started 10 years ago. then, you know, that evolved into an agency, but ultimately it came from this drive of not feeling I could be who I wanted to be in any other setting.

Genevieve Taeger
That's great that you saw that already like right away when you're in starting out because many people they start to feel that but then they get nervous and they think no I need more years to be able to

Christian
Yeah, and then

you're in the golden cage, you make a good salary and have cool friends, cool projects. But yeah, no, had to get out there. I noticed that very early. was too much of an artist, too much of a rebel to be in a corporate setting. It was funny because I was just an intern and even back then I noticed how I wanted to do a posted art installation.

Just like humans are creative. I want to do something fun, something creative. And it was even functional. So I created this portrait of a face of the Google founders that was a scannable QR code. And with that QR, it was all paper, like real life. So if you messed up, they wouldn't be able to scan. So I was like, what a challenge.

And that code should be hung at the entry hall of the building in London for people to scan their daily motivational thing. It's a super Google thing, like very creative, still focused on motivation and the workplace. It wasn't just like, let me throw some paint on the wall. It's like very smart. And.

And then the more I moved on with this project, I did complete it, but it was such a hassle to get the permit from the fire people and say, guys, I'm trying to freaking do something for the company here. Something fun, something quirky, something googly. What's your problem? And I don't know. Yeah, there's just departments that need to control stuff and things to happen. we can't have this much paper hanging on a wall out of fire. I'm like, seriously?

Printing paper in the next room stacked to the ceiling. You know, my God. I was like, no, if I can't, if I can't, if this doesn't work now already, like I have to get out of here. You know, and that's what I did. You know, and it was a really great decision because it very early pushed me into a path of, you know, self-reliance, entrepreneurship and following what I really love, you know, and from that web design.

And my love for design and functionality came the agency LovePixel, right? Where we build websites and brands and systems for people that have their own businesses and take them to the next level. I always say launch, growth, scale with love, because everything we do here is with love and comes from a heart space. And then two years ago, I got the inspiration to start a tea company because I love tea.

Genevieve Taeger
That's beautiful.

Christian
And I'm actually going on a documentary to Japan to film a documentary next week for a month. So super exciting. My brother's a videographer, happens to be. It was very funny because when he was 17, we're nine years apart. So I was 26, he was 17. But even before that, when he was 14. So I was 23, he was 14. And I just finished my studies and the whole thing.

Genevieve Taeger
Wow.

Christian
I gave him Adobe Premiere, which is a video editing program. And know, kids are smart, know, like give like give a teenager something to work with. They're the most brilliant people because at the time they were trying to figure it out, sit down, be effective, be, you know, just really cool stuff. And yeah, now he's a videographer. He's doing really great stuff in the world and all of that because I was able to give him a software that was $500. That's just so unreachable at that age to buy that stuff.

I was like, here's the thing, incredible. It's crazy. what, like the influence it makes in which environment that you grew up with.

Genevieve Taeger
This was fun.

My dad also was a, so he was a photographer. And when the digital came, he just became a digital guru. He loved to work with Adobe Photoshop. I mean, he would just pimp those photos up, you know, and spend hours, countless hours doing it. And so I kind of

I was similar to him. No, I've actually like literally edited my book. I put the painting on my book. I mean, I like mentioned I do my local card. So I've been working with Adobe. ⁓ Yeah, in design and with the Photoshop as well. And it's just amazing what you can do, you know, and that's fabulous that your brother ⁓ got involved with that. So cool.

Christian
Yeah, yeah, I think when you're passionate about something, it's very easy to like get others with you in the boat. You know, he's he's not really like he is into tea, but not as much as I am. Like I love tea. could talk about tea all day long, where tea is incredible, tea, black tea, this and that.

But yeah, when somebody's passionate, you just like you just are just an actual leader because people feel drawn to that to that emotion, to that passion. And it's funny because today, actually, I recorded some short videos, some reels about why I'm going to Japan. Like, why tea? It's such a fascinating topic, you know, that nobody really talks about. And super excited. It's going to be called One with Tea. And it's all about bringing people.

and bringing yourself into oneness with tea, because tea has this quality of like just aligning the masculine and the feminine in body, mind and spirit, and just really harmonizing in your body a lot of just different functions, the nervous system, et cetera, that really make it incredibly special, like tea, the ultimate master plant, you know.

Genevieve Taeger
Fascinating. Yeah, I've never heard of it from that perspective. I think hearing it from that is really interesting.

Christian
Yeah.

Yeah, I think if you look at many or anything in life from like, what's the yin and yang in something? For example, coffee is like super yang. It's like the warrior, you know, it's like gives you energy, gives you boost, which is fine. I feel tea is more balanced. And if something has balance inherently within, for me, that's always somehow more attractive because yes, I can be a warrior, but I can also sit back, relax and receive.

Genevieve Taeger
Mm-hmm.

Christian
If somebody has these two, it's much more attractive if you only have one of these.

Genevieve Taeger
It's interesting too, actually, that you're talking about this because the teachings that came through me about healing the goddess within the goddess is not this thing about women. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the creativity within us, the receiver within us, the one who actually can receive information and not be always in active mode. As you know, thanks to the corporate world.

almost everyone has been in hyperactive mode, leading to stress, anxiety, all this kind of thing. And just so focused on there that they have forgotten who they are. And how can they awaken that part in them again? Everyone, not just, not just women, men too. How can we awaken that?

Christian
Mm-hmm.

Especially Matt. You know, we're like the ones that always go go go, you know? I think...

men have an easier time to switch off sometimes because we're just wired that way. Women sometimes tend to like circulate thoughts more and take things home and be more emotionally attached to certain outcomes, tasks, projects, whatever it is. ⁓ But yeah, especially I think, you know, part of the reason that's also something I said in my reel that I recorded, think part of the reason I'm going to Japan is to bring back some of this balanced feminine

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah.

Christian
to the US because here it's just all about progress and pushing. It's like, when you chill in the US, I don't know. I haven't met anybody who chills. Unless you're retired and really don't do anything. But people who have a purpose also gotta chill sometimes.

Genevieve Taeger
I found that it depends on where you go. Like if you go to, I've driven through almost every state. The West Coast, okay, and I lived in Vancouver on the West Coast in my 20s and no one wanted anyone from Toronto to come because everyone was working to live in Vancouver, not the other way around.

not living to work. And when I would travel down like through Seattle and the, you know, the Western parts, it was also similar to that. And then ⁓ Arizona.

Sedona, the spiritual Mecca kind of area, Utah, very nature oriented, people were very different. But then, you know, when you go around this perimeter of that, you expand outwards, then you're going to experience a lot of back towards the male side, the active part. So it's interesting, depending on where you go, the culture changes.

Christian
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And especially the coasts. mean, those are the most populated, the population density is higher in the coast and that's also where ⁓ more of commerce, et cetera, et cetera happens. yeah, beautiful. Well, we're coming towards the end of our episode. I would really love to ask you a question of what...

what your vision for the new earth is, however you define that.

Genevieve Taeger
Yeah, my vision is that everyone is connected. Everyone is awake. They're aware of who they are. And when they can end not only that, but once they are aware that they are confident in walking in this self that they are this unique self, that would be amazing.

Christian
Yeah, that's a beautiful vision. think we're gonna do it this time.

Genevieve Taeger
We're moving towards it, for sure.

Christian
Yeah,

I don't know if humans are like hopelessly optimistic, I see, I don't know why, but I feel like we can do it. You know what mean?

Genevieve Taeger
We can, yeah.

Christian
So

I think it's a beautiful future we're looking towards, AI supported, human connected. That's the dream. We're going to make it real. Beautiful. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. was an honor to have you. And what are some last words for the audience that you want to leave them with?

Genevieve Taeger
Hmm.

I would say don't give up on your dreams. Like, don't wait for the breakdown to happen. If you're if you feel like you have this desire, then just go to the experts that can help you fulfill on this desire. You don't have to do it alone. You know, because I think that people are so afraid about that, and then they just get stuck and then they don't make the change and you are you are meant to live your calling here.

And so don't wait until you're old and then you're wondering, shit, like I just wasted all these years. Do it now.

Christian
Yeah, beautiful. Thank you so much. I think that's really a message that is, you know, resonating with everyone no matter where they are. You know, I had a t-shirt when I was in my early 20s that said, start doing things you love. Why not? You know, it's really not that hard. It's just doing things you love. Start doing it. What's holding you back? Just do it. Don't even think about it. Just do it.

Genevieve Taeger
That's beautiful.

Yeah.

Christian
You know? Yeah, beautiful. Well, thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom, all your heart, and all your beauty. So, yeah.

Genevieve Taeger
Thank

you, Christian. It was a pleasure being with you.

Christian
Thank you.