For spiritually-centered business owners who really need their business to support them financially.
How do you develop a business in an economy and marketplace that often feels gross?
When the work you do feels so beautiful, important, nourishing?
When you start a business, at a certain point, you realize you need help.
And somehow you still need to make the business work. Without the yuck, please.
About your business when the world is burning...
It’s 2026. There are a lot of terrible things going on, politically, environmentally… We can’t ignore what’s happening (as if that were even possible)…
At the same time, our businesses need us, and there are people in the world who need what we do.
More than ever, we need heart-centered businesses to be accessible and thrive. It’s not everything, yet it’s an important part of the tapestry of care that we so desperately need.
The Heart of Business Learning Community
-Monica Fauble
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Flexible pricing, $120-$208/month
Upcoming through June in the Learning Community
Content Creation Course
Live dates: 2:30-3:30pm eastern
April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5
If writing articles, making videos, and other content, stresses you out, learn how to do it with love, ease and effectiveness.
This course will be taught live only in the Learning Community. Afterward, it will be a permanent module for all members.
Coaching Clinics
March 13: Crafting Your Offer in alignment with your gifts and financial thriving
April 17: Heart-Centered Websites
May 15: Heart-Centered Launches
June 12: Bringing your weirdness out into your business.
Virtual Retreats
Fridays, April 24, June 19.
24 hours to connect with your heart, hear guidance, and clear the path forward.
Heart Deepening Calls
March 18: Connection to yourself, the Divine and to the Client.
April 15: Your Resonant Price
May 20: Softening into the reality of your capacity
June 17: Your ideal business and what gets in the way
Plus the regular support
Coaching, deep-heart connection, compassionate accountability, co-working, tea-time, and more.
This Learning Community is intended as a refuge, to gather with others of like mind and heart, and develop your business while anchoring more deeply in love and action.
My highest intentions for you.
Why 1-3 years to become financially sustainable?
Since 2001, I’ve been intimately involved in working on, and watching, thousands of businesses develop, including our own.
What I’ve seen consistently is that it just takes time, often 1-3 years, to learn, to iterate, to integrate. Those who want you to believe that you can do it more quickly create a burden on all of our hearts. The compassionate approach knows that beautiful things take time to tend and grow.
You can, and do, see successes along the way. Step by step, you see your business work better and better until it starts to feel really solid.
In an effort to help you do this, since 2001 Heart of Business has iterated again and again. In 2018, it came together into this Learning Community. Each piece was already time-tested, and they fit together seamlessly.
Imagine it’s three years from now and you’ve made tremendous progress with your business. You know who you’re reaching, you’re confident in what you’re doing, you’re making good money. How does that feel?
Member Experience:
Janette Daigliesh
“I believe I joined the Learning Community about two years ago. I honestly can’t swear to it because I feel like I’ve been there forever in the nicest possible way.
The biggest benefits I’ve got from joining the Learning Community have been pretty much threefold. The first one is, and this is the big one, I am now clear about who I am here to serve and what I’m here to do, which means I can write a website and not have to go back and rewrite the damn thing 14 times, which I love.
The second thing is that I can point to my numbers and say that since joining the community, at which point I was in a mess, my numbers have shifted dramatically to the point where in the first seven months of this financial year, I’ve made 150% of what I made in the full previous year, which bodes well.
And the third piece is the connections that I’ve made. I’ve made connections with humans that I would not otherwise have met. Really good humans, really caring, compassionate, heart-centered, passionate humans who care so deeply about what they do and how they do it. And it is such a joy to be connected to a community like that with leaders like Mark and Holly and facilitated so well by the various support staff. It’s been an absolute joy.
I have experienced a lot of different business coaches and experts and gurus and teachers over the years. I’ve been in business a decade and a half, and Mark’s work is unique and different and better than anyone else that I’ve experienced. I would highly, highly, highly recommend getting involved in the community because there is something so profound and deep and healing.
I’ve heard it said that being in business for oneself is the ultimate self-help/self-development journey. And I can certainly attest to that from my life. And I could not have done the journey, not that it’s complete, but the work in progress has been so much easier and better and deeper and more effective through my time in the learning community.
Who exactly is this Community for?
This Learning Community works because it’s very specific, and the people who belong share values and intentions.
- Micro-business owners: Meaning self-employed up to a small handful of people involved.
- Service-based businesses: You may offer products, but at core you provide a service. Accountants, architects, holistic health care practitioners, spiritual healers, coaches, artists and others.
- Shared values: Integrity is non-negotiable. Contribution and being of service are needs. Success is a good thing. Spirituality is real. You want to make a difference in the world.
- Similar needs: You need a business that earns a real living, but without compromising your heart.
- You have a passion or a gift: Maybe it’s hard to see yourself as a business person, but in your heart you just know you want to share this thing that has helped you so much, that is such a part of you. And you know there are people you can help.
And who is it not for?
- Aren’t spiritual at all. Spirituality is at the core of what we teach. All spiritual paths and orientations are welcome.
- Don’t have at least some self-direction. You’ll want to be motivated enough to engage with resources, calls and community.
- Unwilling to be courageous. Business success means visibility and taking up space. It may not be comfortable, but a willingness to try new things and risk making a mistake is important even if it is a stretch for you.
- Demand results yesterday. Some move very quickly. But development often takes time, and usually requires persistence.
- Those who are intolerant are not tolerated. We have all kinds inside: different religions and paths, and no path at all. Different cultures and races. Queer and trans. Don’t like the diversity of humanity? Please don’t join.
Joining us is like stepping into a well-established permaculture garden where there is ample choice of foods in every season. In the Heart of Business Learning Community it’s easy to find what you need to get your business running or tuned up at any stage. And this garden is full of others doing the exact same thing.
We’ve put all this together at a price that means you can make the full journey and not have to drop out half-way through.
We are offering this in a super-accessible form because we have a serious mission to see as many heart-centered people as possible able to make a good living while bringing their gifts to the world. Thousands of heart-centered business owners from many different cultures and spiritual backgrounds have already used our approach to help their businesses develop and thrive.
Please join us, and let’s rise together!
In-depth client experiences
We thought it might be helpful to hear from members in their own voice, going into detail about their experience in the Learning Community and how it helped their business.
Karen Light- Member Experience
Lori Lovens - Member Experience
Can just anyone really develop a business?
What kind of commitment is needed?
There are just three commitments that are needed to make this work for you.
1. Kindness
To yourself, to others, to your business. Kindness with deadlines and goals, with learning, with mistakes.
2. Vulnerability
The willingness to show up exactly as you are, and ask for help.
“Uh… I’m completely lost. Here’s what’s going on (or not going on) in my business… what do I do?”
When people show up messy and vulnerable, we can get you back on track again.
3. Some self-direction
You will be learning many things through online modules, with videos and PDFs in bite-sized, do-able pieces. When you dig into these, we can use our live calls to help you apply what you’ve learned.
So, what kind of commitment is needed to be successful?
The willingness to show up vulnerably, with kindness, and ask for help.
About Mark and Holly
Mark Silver, M.Div.
Founding Heart of Business in 2001, I’m the author of, Heart-Centered Business: Healing from toxic business culture so your small business can thrive. (Wildhouse Press) As a coach, consultant, mentor and spiritual healer, I’ve worked with over 4000 business owners since then, facilitating thousands of individual sessions with entrepreneurs and have led hundreds of classes, seminars, groups and retreats.
I’m a designated Master Teacher (“muqaddam murrabi“) within the Shaddhilliyya Sufi lineage, I received my Masters of Divinity with a speciality in Ministry and Sufi Studies.
My love for the planet led me to serve on the Board of Directors for the Horn Farm Center, a working farm in York, Pennsylvania, focused on educating people in the region on regenerative agriculture.
I’m in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, with Holly, our twin teen sons Sam and David, our orange tabby Ori, and our elderly husky-malamute-shepherd Rocky. Our 15 acre property is slowly being turned into a food forest to contribute to the local foodshed.
Holly Glaser
I have healer training in the same Sufi lineage as Mark, as well as a love of nature.
I have a past incarnation as a massage therapist. I’m presently immersed in the study of trauma, and ancestral and collective healing. I’ve trained in Family Constellations, Non-Violent Communication and a variety of other healing approaches.
I’ve been dedicated to learning and teaching healing in one form or another since I graduated from college a long time ago ;-), and partnering with Mark has magnified and deepened this for me.
My degree is in Political Economy and Social Strategies for Environmental Protection. I basically studied how to change the world. The question in my heart has always been, “what is the most effective fulcurm for change?” Happily, for me, Heart of Business contains all the essential pieces of the answer.
I’ve been with Heart of Business since the beginning in a variety of roles. Supporting folks in our Learning Community is both an honor and a great joy to me.
Member Experience:
Anita Mae Blanchette
“The spiritual content from Heart of Business was deeply surprising to me because I felt I had a strong spirituality, but I realized it wasn’t a heartfelt, personal connection with the divine. That was the single biggest shift for me that I learned through doing the practice of remembrance and got support for on the calls.
I also love the opportunity in the Virtual Retreats to just bring to Mark whatever I wanted to bring. I’ve had some really amazing breakthroughs through just being so beautifully witnessed by the group on the calls. Also by Mark and his lovely wise presence. He never tells us what to do, but he listens from his heart, and somehow in this way he kind of gives me back to myself, which is an incredible gift.
As someone who had been really programmed to avoid emotion at all cost, it was extraordinary to see other members of the community opening up and sharing so vulnerably on Holly’s calls too. I saw that there was a space here within the community to do this. She’s able to hold the space for me to see myself in a new way, in a more whole and loving way.
I was feeling very lost with both creating my art and knowing how to step out in the world with it. I had a lot of healing to do and so the progress was really slow for me at first.
And through Heart of Business, through these past two years, taking the time to listen and feel and connect has helped me establish a whole new relationship with my art and my business. Now I have partnerships and collaborations that are working really well for me, that feel authentic to me.
Here’s what’s included in our Learning Community:
1
The Roadmap
(a developmental framework and individual assessment for your business.)
2
In-depth, time-tested, training modules on more than 24 aspects of business. With templates, examples, and healing including.
3
Compassionate Accountability, providing a human, relationship-centered way of moving forward without harming yourself.
4
A lot of live support, weekly. Multiple calls, each with different intentions. You are not left on your own, or lost in the crowd.
5
Safe, Courageous
and Generous Community. Facilitated, with a solid culture of care, generosity, and respect.
6
An understanding of systemic injustice, including capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, and ableism. Trauma-aware.
- Alice Lee
I help neurodivergent entrepreneurs whose work demands writing and who find writing so hard it’s almost physically painful. I got one new client and finished four sessions with her in January. I sent my site to someone who had expressed an interest in me some time ago and she booked - she wants to do it! We did a discovery call the other day and she's like, "What do we do now?" And then...I noticed an email come in that I've got another one... I want to tell you about the magic. I did visioning for the new year. Four days later, I got my first inquiry from my new website. A few days after that, I did my first cold discovery call ever, and signed them up on the spot for a 4-session package.
Then when I did my monthly plan for February, I set the intention to attract at least one new client -- and now I've attracted two and it's only the middle of the month! Thank you for the encouragement and love. It means so much to me. Mark, and all of you, have cradled my spirit with such love and such profound teachings and experiences. I’m so glad to be part of this Learning Community.
- Dee Nemeth
Or find out in detail about the six parts below.
The Roadmap.
It all starts with an assessment, so you know exactly where your business is in the Four Stages of Business Development. You get a personal response to your assessment, confirming and/or refining, so you know exactly where to focus, and what you can safely ignore.
Goodbye overwhelm! Now you know what you need to focus on first, what to save for later and what you can let go of altogether.
Proven Business Training:
Once you have the roadmap, you can look at our library with dozens of heart-centered training modules and know exactly the one you need to start with and work through.
All of our training modules have been developed over many years. They are broken into easy-to-work-with, bite-sized pieces. Even with a busy schedule, you can complete at least one step per week. Step-by-step you’ll be on your way to having a truly sustainable business. And with each step your business works better.
What’s more, it’s all organized in a potent, easy-to-use learning system that tracks what you’ve done and what you have yet to do. There are easy-to-follow assignments, in a variety of formats- PDF, audio, video.
And it all fits together. Community members often tell us of the moment they saw how it all fit together, and how all the modules make sense to them now as a whole.
Want to see some of our training modules? Click to expand each to see topics covered.
What's inside?
- No more heavy lifting
- The Tender Art of Niching
- Demographics + Psychographics
- The Problem
- Your Compelling Sentence
- The Only Response That Matters
- Standing In Your Client’s Shoes
- Many examples
- Recordings of coaching to clarity
What's inside?
- Crafting Your Offer
- Your Heart and Money
- Your Right Price
- Connecting to the Client
- Compassionate Questioning
- Singin’ Like Sinatra
- The Agreement
- The Bridge (“I’ll think about it…”)
- Asking for Referrals
- Recordings of successful conversations
- Recordings of asking for referrals
What's inside?
- What is Marketing Syntax?
- The Who and the What
- The Problem
- The Standard Solutions (that don’t work)
- Why the Standard Solutions Don’t Work
- What They Really Need to Do
- Why You are So Good (heart-centered bio)
- Putting Your CFS to Work
- Many CFS reviews and examples
What's inside?
- The Keyhole and the Teaching
- Drama-rama
- The Stepladder
- The Special Sauce of Writing
- The Caboose
- Your Free Give-away
- Many article reviews/examples
What's inside?
- The Basic Eight Web Pages
- Customer-Focused Story to the Basic Eight
- The Is This You Page
- The How It Works Page
- The About Page
- The Sign-Up and Contact Pages
- How to Hire a Web Designer
- Quick and Clean Sales Pages
- Lots of web page reviews
What's inside?
- The Fundamentals of Heart-Centered (non-icky) Networking
- Healing Your Heart, and Removing Neediness
- Online/Social Media Networking
- Strategic Alliances
- Creating a Strategy
What's inside?
- Why referrals never arrive.
- The elements needed for a successful referral.
- Timing your ask.
- Create a system so you never forget.
- Coaching examples of how to ask for referrals effectively.
What's inside?
- Correcting a basic misunderstanding in this kind of marketing, so it doesn’t feel as heavy or challenging.
- Learning the different types of First Journey Marketing, so you can find an approach that fits who you are.
- How to make events successful for new people, and your business.
- The role of content publishing in reaching new people, what works, and how to make it effective.
- Social media advertising, it’s limitations and how it can be effective.
- Ethical elements around social media advertising.
What's inside?
- The two biggest problems with hiring an assistant.
- Figuring out what kind of help you really need.
- How to have an effective hiring process, so you’re not wasting money or time, and not hiring the wrong person.
- What to do when someone quotes you way too much for what you want done.
- How to discern between being too picky and getting what you want.
- How to manage an assistant with heart and clarity, even if you’ve never been a “boss” before.
- How to hold boundaries without being harsh.
- Understanding how long it takes for execution.
What's inside?
- The myths around information products, and how to decide if it’s time for you to create one.
- Choosing what makes a good product, what’s too much, what’s too little, what’s a good value.
- How to make it as easily as possible, without overwhelm.
- What is core content versus what is a bonus?
- Options on how to deliver an information product.
- Is it worth it to do a membership site?
- Do information products bring 1-1 clients? How?
- Marketing, pricing and selling your information product.
What's inside?
- The myths and misunderstandings of sales pages, and what they are really here for.
- The 7 elements of a Quick and Clean sales page that you can create without struggle.
- How to make bullet points that really connect with your reader.
- The intention of testimonials, how they work, and how to get good ones.
- Ethical use of urgency, without manipulation or undue pressure on the reader.
What's inside?
Promoting an offer, whether it’s individual client work, a course, or other kind of program, requires typically a “launch” or campaign. This module covers:
- The fundamental principles of a launch, that apply across all types.
- All of those emails? Really? What’s involved in a successful campaign.
- Four different types of launches, and how to be successful with each.
- The specifics of launching offers for individual client work, how it differs, and the five steps to do it effectively.
- Troubleshooting and repairing launches that aren’t working they way you want them to.
- Launching when you starting from zero.
And more! Including Developing Sovereignty in yourself as a business owner, The Three Journeys of Marketing, How to Be Sustainably Self-Employed, as well as others we add from time to time.
Compassionate Accountability
Okay, you’ve got the roadmap, you know what you need to work on. Now, we help you actually get it done.
Once a month there’s a one-hour, in-depth planning session to help you get clear on your top priorities that are in alignment with both your own heart and what your business needs.
Then, weekly, there’s a light touch compassionate accountability call where we review last week, how you can learn from what did or didn’t happen, and identify the highest priorities to take care of this week. We’re committed to helping you take the sometimes small, always consistent steps that make a big difference over time.
Member Experience
Simone Steigerwalt
“Thank you for this Learning Community, and for all the ways you model integrity, kindness, authenticity, spiritual connectedness, and heart-centeredness.
I really love the deep heart check-ins. it feels really nourishing to be able to show up to the calls and know that I can be messy and me and my stuff will be held with care and compassion and witnessing.
I also really love Mark’s coaching calls. I’m very much still in the ‘building’ stage, but it’s really helpful to hear what’s going on with others’ businesses, and though I can’t relate to everyone on every call, there’s usually a few things that feel immediately applicable, and almost always something that I take notes on to apply later.
As for the Facebook group, I really appreciate that space. Whenever I want to feel connected to the group, I love that I can just peak in and see what everyone’s up to and feel less alone in my business. I also just love how everyone offers such thorough and thoughtful responses to each other. It really does feel like a community.
The modules have been fantastic. It’s exactly what i was looking for. I feel like I’m in business school and being hand-held, step by step, in building my business. and not only that, but doing it with my heart and integrity intact. It just feels, really really good, compared to other business coaching I’ve participated in. I don’t even have words. Just… thank you.
The spiritual aspect of the community/modules has been life changing… it’s like just enough to be useful and impactful, but not too much that I feel overwhelmed or like you’re trying to indoctrinate me.
Just the remembrance practice, and being constantly reminded of the existence of the divine and not to get too fixated on the movie screen of my life. It’s become easier to be in the world but not of it, but also not spiritually bypassing myself or others. it’s been such a gift.
I‘m learning so much, and i feel so nourished in all the ways. It’s truly a gift. I feel really blessed to be here.
Coaching and Feedback, in two parts
As we discussed above, the roadmap and the training isn’t enough, because you need feedback! There are two different levels of feedback.
(Note: To keep this affordable, the Learning Community is NOT the same as individual coaching. However, it’s chock-full of support, and there are higher levels of support available to members, either in occasional individual sessions, or an ongoing smaller group.)
First, there’s the coaching library.
The questions you have, what you’re struggling with, hundreds of others have also. We have an organized library with years of past written Q&A coaching, so if you’re hashing it out at 2am, and need help, it’s there.
There’s also a collection of past coaching calls, with lists of questions. There’s individual, 15 minute recordings of coaching people have received on their core marketing message, as well as similar bite-sized recordings of people getting coached on enrollment/sales calls with potential clients.
There are website examples and reviews, and written edits for website copy and offers… it’s incredibly useful, because anything you’re facing is likely available.
Second, there’s actual coaching calls.
Three times a month there’s a live any-topic-is-welcome coaching call. And, once a month there is a longer clinic that is focused on a particular topic.
A legitimate concern about group coaching is whether one gets a “turn.” We purposefully limit the number of members, so the calls are not too crowded. It’s rare for those with a question to not be called on.
What’s more, because members are in similar situations, folks consistently tell us listening to the coaching calls answers questions they didn’t even know they had.
Plus, the conversation can be continued in the Facebook group, where no post is ignored (more on the Facebook group below), and a great deal of help happens for folks every day.
A generous, engaged community:
Our group has been described as one of the only truly safe spaces for combining business and spirit. We use a private Facebook group where our Community gives feedback, gets inspiration, and celebrates. Some folks even meet in person!
A special note about our Facebook group
For many of us, social media is both exciting and… difficult. You probably don’t feel you can truly be yourself, even in groups that have good intentions.
What’s different about our group is that we have both guidelines and… FACILITATORS! Yes, it’s facilitated! With kindness and compassion (not a feeling of “enforcement”). It means no posting gets missed. It means that self-promotional posts only show up in appropriate places. It means that the discussions are courageous and tender, direct and compassionate.
- Lev Natan
Spiritual Nourishment
Many versions of business spirituality take what I call the “gas tank” approach: fill up on spiritual connection, then, when your tank runs down while “doing business,” go fill back up again.
Other approaches seem to be connected to versions of “think and it shall be” that can get caught inflating the ego and trying to use the world as a big shopping catalog.
Neither of those approaches have resonated with me, and I’ve seen some versions of them do real harm.
We include spirituality in the Community because there is nothing that isn’t touched and permeated by spirit.
What’s needed is not to integrate spirit and business, but to see how it’s already integrated, and to relate to reality as a humbling, sacred mystery. This kind of humble relationship with spirit directly affects our relationship with the nitty-gritty day-to-day details of being in business in profound and helpful ways.
The unquenchable thirst.
There is a Sufi quote that says “The aim is not to drink to quench your thirst. The aim is to develop the perfect thirst, so that you never stop drinking.” Amidst the practicalities of developing a business, we’re wanting to also develop the remembered awareness that we can connect in each moment, that we have access to a very deep and palpable love, to wisdom, to understanding, to guidance…
Our team and members of this Learning Community have diverse spiritual backgrounds, and people of many different faiths, including Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Wiccan, Jainist, Hindu, Zoraostrian and people of no path at all have found joy in the spiritual work here.
Our founder, Mark Silver, earned his Masters of Divinity, and is a designated master teacher in his Sufi lineage, which has been continual for 1400 years. The teachings have been used throughout the centuries by countless spiritual students, and support us in developing a lived experience of Love in every moment.
Holly is also steeped in these Sufi practices, while she holds a broader sense of spirituality.
Together, they hold a depth of acceptance and understanding that provides a profound and gentle container for folks to grow both their businesses and their connection to their hearts.
We offer three processes to help deepen and anchor your connection within your business.
We lead 15 minute live remembrance calls every week, and our members use our growing library of 250 different meditations to break through blocks and challenges, as well as support themselves in regular spiritual practice.
Finally, or perhaps primarily, the business teachings themselves are integrated with universal spiritual truths. We don’t just teach you what to do, but help you see the spiritual framework for why any particular teaching works, so that no matter what you do in business, every act you take is an act of love.
- Leslie Nipps
During the heart connection process, I felt a huge sense of peace and expansion. And then came the insight that Heart of Business was the first place that I felt seen and heard and responded to, without feeling people were projecting their stuff onto me, and/or telling me what to do. (It’s not the only place now, but it was the first.)
This is such an essential piece for me, in order to build my business in a way that suits me, while receiving trustworthy witnessing and guidance. So that was pretty amazing, even if it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. (It never is!)
And then came the sharing. There was a series of deep, vulnerable sharings by people on the call, which spoke directly to my heart. And what I’m dealing with currently, in life and business.
I’m celebrating the power and sheer divine magic of the Deep Heart Check In calls.
- Alice Bulmer
What does a typical week or month look like for members? (How much time does it take?)
Here’s the basic rhythm, with some allowances for holidays and such. There is a lot here. It’s rare that a member attends all live calls. Rather, we support folks to access what they need, when they need it, and leave the rest.
The live call schedule:
- Last Monday of the month, there’s an hour-long planning call for the next month, usually 2pm eastern.
- Most Mondays, there’s a 30 minute Compassionate Accountability call at 2pm eastern. The first 15 minutes is guided Remembrance, the second fifteen we review the past week and set priorities for the current one.
- Two Wednesdays per month, there’s a one-hour Deep Heart Check-In call. It can be hard to hear what our hearts are telling us, and this call is designed to take you deep, to help you find your own guidance and answers. The times rotate between 11am and 4pm eastern to accommodate different time zones. A third Wednesday it’s a support/coaching call.
- Another Wednesday per month, there’s a 90 minute deepening call, that takes one of the core spiritual teachings, like Sovereignty, the Jewel, Connection, or others, and guides you through from deep in your heart.
- Four Thursdays per month, there’s a one hour+ coaching call. The times rotate between 11am and 4pm eastern to accommodate different time zones. Once per month, one of these is a clinic on a specific topic.
- Co-working calls every week, rotating between Wednesdays and Thursdays, and different times to accommodate different time zones, members of the community come together for a very brief check-in at the start and check-out at the end, and otherwise each is working on their business. Members say this is incredibly helpful to actually just show up and get important things done.
- Community Tea Time once per month, is a purely social time for members to get to know each other. This time has been used to practice introductions, like one would do in a networking group, but in general it’s meant to strengthen social connections and deepen trust.
Time on the Facebook group: From 30 minutes a week up to 30 minutes a day, depending on how much support you’re needing. Some members are avid Facebook users, others use a bookmark to come straight to our group. Folks give and receive emotional, spiritual, learning and technical support daily from around the world.
Plus, you’ll be working on the learning modules. It should be said that the learning modules are not “extra” time. It’s time you need to spend developing your business. Remember, you’ll be more focused, efficient and productive because you’ll be working on exactly what you need to be working on. Depending on how ambitious you are, say 1-3 hours/week. If you have more time, that’s great.
So, all told, on average, an hour a month for the planning call, plus 3-6 hours per week, which is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to be spending developing your business.
Our members find the Learning Community to be a powerful container to do the emotional and nitty-gritty work of developing their businesses. Every week people post successes, some small, some big, and often having to do with financial gains.
OHHH Virtual Retreats!…now there is a great thing you can’t find anywhere else! I have been on five day silent retreats, and self-generated weekend retreats, but 24 hours to spend with a Sufi spiritual teacher, and business coach, is a dynamite combo in my book.
I would not have thought that spirituality and business could come together and help me with my business but….here it is. This community also provides several calls during the month to get HELP. What is really great is that no matter what the problem is you get the time you need and some wonderful guidance, that I personally, find is usually spot on.
- Mary Headley
That “Pay from the Heart” Thing
Pay From The Heart means compassionate flexible pricing that takes into account both your financial situation and our need to be sustainable.
I’ve seen people struggle with sliding scales because they want to pay their “fair share.” Let me share a Sufi perspective: you can only give what you’ve been given.
We want you to feel great about the relationship- what you receive as a member, and what you give to sustain us in our giving to you.
What is sustainable for us.
We decided, from the heart and from our financial statements, to set the minimum contribution at $120/month. It is Pay From the Heart, and we’re not sustained if the majority of members pay less than $120/month, because that means we operate at a loss. Not good business modeling!
Our doing well, sustainable revenue, is for each member to pay $2500 for the year, which works out to about $208/month.
What this means for most of our members, is that if we support you to add just one or two additional client sessions per month, it pays for itself. And, of course, our intention is to help you grow a lot more than that.
Food and shelter: If you live in an economy, or are in a financial situation, where spending $120/month might mean you can’t afford food or keeping a roof over your head, you are invited with an open heart to choose an amount lower than our minimum down to a floor of $75/month. This includes those who are living on the edge, and basic quality of life would be affected by paying $120/month. If this is your situation, we’re serious about welcoming you.
If paying even $75/month would be a dangerous hardship, and you are really committed to developing your business, we welcome you to write in to us (you can use the form at the bottom of this page) explaining your situation to see if it meets a “compassionate circumstances” exception, and if we have space to support another member below the $75 floor.
Otherwise we ask you to pay at least our minimum of $120, we invite you to pay our sustainable price of $208, and welcome you to consider paying more if you can, as it balances those who cannot.
What other people charge.
When I’ve researched similar offers, most fell somewhere between $90 and $450/month. The gift here is that we have some flexibility for you to find a price that feels right in your heart as well as our own hearts.
One year commitment: Because building a business takes time, this is a 12 month membership. Those who love what we do often stick around for 2-4 years (and sometimes longer). Which is what it takes to develop a business fully into momentum.
*We do allow folks to exit before the year is up for compassionate reasons. A death in the family, intense, long-term illness, a disastrous change in personal circumstances like a house fire, or being laid off.
How it works.
First, decide if you are going to join us. Let yourself feel the possibilities of what this kind of support and training would mean to you, your heart, and your business. Sound good? Come on in!
Second, if you decide “Yes,” then make a decision of how much per month. Take time to both think about the reality of your financial situation and the needs of Heart of Business to provide this support. Then sense into your heart what number feels right on a monthly basis. We trust what you come up with, and look forward to welcoming you!
There are times when taking a big gamble can pay big wins, but I've also both seen and personally experienced the disappointment of investing in a product or service that simply didn't deliver as promised despite maximum effort and sacrifice.
It was particularly eye opening to learn that many people quoted on some business coaches pages had no trace of an existing business, much less a searchable online professional presence. I can only assume they folded, or else pivoted so hard away from their original business that the remaining connection was tenuous at best.
Where I was most impressed with HOB was not only the glowing reviews from peers I trusted, and the significant shift in approach that I got to taste when you came to Edmonton, but that every business testimonial could be traced to a living business with a unique offering, that was professionally presented, and that all of HOB's marketing tactics were transparent and offered plenty of space for acclimation and consent.
Too many times, false scarcity, pressure, and over-promising is the game of marketing and I am so tired of it. Tired of the ultra-capitalist, patriarchal, colonial-minded, family-unfriendly BS that such tactics are perpetuated from, and not exclusively perpetuated by white men (or other typical places of privilege).
While some businesses and business people may not have the bright shiny exterior of a 5 or 6 figure book deal, or features in the NYT, my entire experience with Heart of Business has been one of community, ethics, reciprocity, generosity, brave and safe space, accountability, and unconditional support.
- Christina Ignacio-Deines
Ready to jump in?
The first word, and the last, is love. It’s not easy to maintain a connection to love and also stay grounded in what needs to happen in your business to have it flourish. In our Community we strive to integrate the engagement and work that life and business calls us to, with the spiritual reality of being present to Love in every moment.
If you’ve ever noticed how much easier it is to do spiritual practice in a group than it is on your own, then you know that the more of us together, supporting each other on this path, the easier it is for all of us.
I hope you’ll join us.
$120-$208 per month, choose the price your heart feels is right. When you click to join, you’ll be taken to a page where you can put in how much you want to pay monthly.
Or, choose the annual membership. If you jump in at our thriving rate of $208/month, and pay for the year up front, you’ll get one month free. A total of $2288 for an entire year of support, including six Virtual Retreats, weekly coaching calls and accountability structures, as well as all the learning modules, coaching support and everything else
A Gentle Welcome
Joining any membership program can stir up a mix of excitement and uncertainty. With so many resources and possibilities, it’s common to wonder: Where do I begin? How do I make the most of this without trying to do it all at once?
That’s exactly what our New Member Orientation Calls are here for.
These live, welcoming sessions help you:
- Settle in and find your starting point
- Understand how to engage without overwhelm
- Learn how to get what you and your business needs from the community and resources
- Meet other members
Spring 2026 Orientation Call Schedule:
Wednesday, March 18, 10am-11am eastern
Monday, March 23, 4pm-5pm eastern
Thursday, April 2, 1pm-2pm eastern
Every time that I’ve posted a request or a question in the Facebook group I’ve received several warm and generous answers. In a crowd like that there will always be somebody who has some experience in the area that I need help with.
The remembrance library has become part of my daily life. So much wisdom there! It gives me the emotional support that I need for business matters and for life in general. I hope that over time I get to listen to all the recordings, because in each one of them I learn something valuable, but there are so many of them that it’ll take me a long time!
I admire the people who set up the structure and produce the resources of the community. They seem to know very well our needs, and they always show a generous desire to help us.
- Rodrigo Suárez Hoffman
Other questions people ask
What if I don’t have a business?
If you have no intention to ever start a business, then you’ll probably feel out of place, because the focus is on business development. 🙂
However, if you intend to start a business, and are having trouble getting started, then the Compassionate Accountability structure, and the heart nourishment we have here may be just the thing to help you take the steps you need to get started.
There is no “holier than thou” attitude here, all are welcome, and people are at many different levels of experience and history around business.
Is there a guarantee? Can I cancel? Do you give refunds?
We have poured our hearts into this community to offer a LOT of support while also making it as inexpensive as possible. We’ve seen other communities charge high prices for similar offerings, and yet we feel great about offering this at Pay from the Heart pricing.
One thing that adds a lot of hidden costs to a program are administrative costs. Someone will ask for what seems like a simple thing, like a special payment plan, not realizing that hours of administrative time can be quickly eaten up.
So, after a lot of prayer and discussion, here’s our policy for this program:
Guarantees: We guarantee to deliver what we promise. In a catastrophic situation where we are unable to deliver what we promise, and are unable to make up for it in a timely fashion, we will communicate with the community at that point, and figure out the best way to compensate for what happened.
Cancellations: Please take the first 30 days of your membershiup to see how well we can support you. You can cancel in the first 30 days, and you will only have paid for one month. After the first 30 days, compassionate cancellations are allowed for disastrous changes in your personal situation, and we will stop any future payments scheduled. Otherwise, this is an annual membership.
Refunds: If you have paid in advance for the full year, and you cancel in the first 30 days, or have a compassionate cancellation as described above, we will refund you on a pro-rated basis. There are no other refunds for past, or current, monthly payments.
What if I can’t join right now? Is enrollment always open?
We generally open for new members three times per year, and, occasionally, to those on the Wait List at other times. If membership is open, we encourage you to step in, even if you don’t have space to go gangbusters immediately.
The alternative, waiting months to dig in, can also work, if it meets your timeline. Either way, we trust what your heart tells you.
Have a question? Please ask
More Community Member Experiences
The Community has provided me a forum to have my questions answered, get feedback on parts of my business I am working on, and even keep me accountable to my business tasks. As the only practitioner in my business, it can be easy to get distracted, put off other tasks, or just feel like I am spinning my wheels. If I want, any day, I can check in with the Community and know that I am not alone. I can see my business growing along side others. Together, we work on the monthly focus and bring ideas to areas where we feel stuck or vulnerable. It is nice to have a place where I’m not the only one who has questions and sometimes, I can be one to help another person get clarity. Most of all, it doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or been in business for years, there is something for everyone.
If you are already called to the work Heart of Business does, you know that taking care of your heart matters. It matters for your business. It matters because your business is bringing healing to the world in such needed times. It can be easy to let go of spiritual practices, I know as I’ve been there too many times. We slip but we can also come back. Being part of the Community also means that I can keep my heart connected to the Divine through the guided Remembrance recordings (that I put on my computer and phone – listening on the go or even at the gym), I have a forum to ask questions of the heart. I have been able to be gentle enough with myself to take a whole day off every other month for the Virtual Retreat. Even when I don’t have questions, being available to support and witness other people’s journeys is where I need to be.
Since diving into the Community, my business has seen me step into it and really take stewardship. My e-mail list has grown, my writing is improving and there is more clarity about who I am serving. I have been able to get important systems in place to help make some tasks easier to do and provide more support to my clients. I have been able to embark on bigger projects because I have the ability to ask questions, benefit from the experiences and gifts of the other members, and bring these to the community I serve – which is saving me hours of research about learning the necessary programs to get the work done. My heart is being supported in my own healing journey and even though it is something I feel is more personal, having the community be able to cheer me on or witness it allows me to keep with it when it gets tough or challenges me (gently and lovingly) when I try to step away from it.
If you are thinking about joining the Community, know that the safe space is ready when you are with welcoming moderators and community participants. The forum and the calls bring our hearts together so we don’t have to walk alone – because every step is important. Whether you want help finding reliable software for a task you are undertaking, looking for feedback as you write your website, or want a community of like-minded spiritual business people, this is a great place for your heart and the heart of your business. Hope to see you soon.
- Nicole McKay
But the very best part of Heart of Business is the focus on spiritual support that allows you to rest in your heart. If you want to make a difference but need to make a profit, Heart of Business is an excellent fit for you and your business. You will learn how to bring people towards you with integrity. No sneaky manipulative-feeling tips or tricks here. You will learn how to market while maintaining your integrity. That’s what makes Heart of Business so unique and so perfect for anyone who wants to make the world a better place.
- Monica Fauble