The Showgirl Shaman: Embracing Embodiment in Money and Art with Kellita Maloof

Highly Sensitive Money with Diana Gisel Yañez

The Showgirl Shaman: Embracing Embodiment in Money and Art with Kellita Maloof

In this episode of Highly Sensitive Money, host Diana Yañez interviews Kellita Maloof, known as the showgirl shaman, about the unique challenges and insights of highly sensitive people in handling their finances. Kellita shares her journey as a performing and teaching artist who helps highly sensitive women embrace their sensitivity through conscious burlesque and dance. She discusses her personal experiences with money, growing up in varied financial environments, and how she has integrated her sensitivity into her entrepreneurial journey.

We explore topics such as the struggle with undercharging, the need for financial stability, and the importance of staying embodied while navigating financial decisions. The conversation also touches on the impact of magical thinking, adaptogenic movements, and the significant influence of mentors in reshaping one's relationship with money.

About Our Guest:

For over 2 decades, Kellita Maloof has been working and creating at the intersection of burlesque, attachment, individuation, somatics, metaphysics and soul retrieval. She's a Performing and Teaching Artist, Conscious Burlesque Mentor and Emergence Coach.

Highlights in Kellita's performing career include: founding award-winning dance troupe Hot Pink Feathers, Queen of Carnaval San Francisco 2008 and 5-time finalist at the Burlesque Hall of Fame. She’s taught and performed from San Francisco to New Orleans, Hollywood to Montreal and Paris to Tokyo.

Kellita helps kind, smart, soulful, highly sensitive women who've been over-editing and over-adapting and are drawn to – even if intimidated by – creative expression such as dance and improv to trust and express themselves with confidence, presence and radiance. She integrates into her work over a decade of practice with Transformational NLP, Systemic
Constellations and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Kellita shares her methodology in her book How To Create A Burlesque Solo ... From The Inside Out and her point of view in her TEDx talk The power of being SEEN: Burlesque as a way home to yourself. Her mission is to support women in dusting off the fountain of Self-Love that was hiding right in the center of their very own shimmy.

The key moments in this episode are:

00:00 Introduction to Highly Sensitive Money
00:28 Meet Kellita Maloof: The Showgirl Shaman
01:40 The Artist vs. Entrepreneur Spectrum
03:57 Discovering High Sensitivity
06:51 Embracing Sensitivity and Overcoming Shame
08:38 The Importance of Embodiment in Burlesque
13:07 Financial Background and Early Life
21:32 Navigating Financial Identity and Entrepreneurship
27:04 Navigating High Sensitivity and Pricing
28:09 The Concept of Branding and Its Discomforts
29:55 Sliding Scale and Financial Accessibility
32:33 The Role of Magical Thinking in Entrepreneurship
37:50 Embodiment Practices for Highly Sensitive Individuals
45:28 Money Mentors and Financial Wisdom
49:42 Concluding Thoughts on Money and Sensitivity

Resources:

Kellita’s website Showgirl Awakening
Kellita’s movement tutorials
Kellita’s book How to Create a Burslesque Solo From the Inside Out
Eileen Aron's book "The Highly Sensitive Person"
Ane Axford's work on high sensitivity
Tad Hargrave of Marketing for Hippies
The Nap Ministry
allthecolors.net for the Money Archetypes quiz