In this transformative conversation, host Xóchitl Kusikuy Ashé sits down with Jesse Johnson Chandra, a seven-figure spiritual business coach who specializes in helping healers, artists, and conscious entrepreneurs break free from poverty consciousness and build thriving practices.
This episode dismantles the pervasive myth that spiritual people must choose between service and wealth. Jesse shares her powerful journey from underpaid algebra teacher in NYC public schools to building a multi-million dollar coaching business—and then losing it all before rebuilding from a place of deeper authenticity and alignment.
Perfect for: Spiritual entrepreneurs, healers, coaches, artists, and conscious business owners struggling to charge their worth, experiencing money blocks, or feeling guilty about desiring financial abundance while doing sacred work.
Connect with Jesse Johnson Chandra
Website: www.jessejohnsoncoaching.com
Instagram: @jessejohnsoncoaching
YouTube: Jesse Johnson Coaching
Learn about: Seven-figure business strategy, money mindset coaching, sales training for spiritual entrepreneurs, conscious business development
Connect with Xóchitl Kusikuy Ashé
Website: xochitlashe.com
Instagram & Facebook: @xochitlashe
Specialty: Indigenous wisdom, microdosing integration, psychedelic facilitation, ancestral healing
About Jesse Johnson Chandra
Jesse Johnson Chandra is a transformational business coach, artist, and musician who serves visionary entrepreneurs, spiritual teachers, healers, and leaders of innovative organizations making profound impact in the world. She specializes in the intersection of money, power, consciousness, and potential, helping her clients do the work they are divinely called to, earn income that truly matches their value (typically seven figures or more), and live lives aligned with their deepest truth.
Jesse began as an algebra teacher and instructional coach in New York City public high schools, where she spent a decade attempting to transform education from within. Dismayed by systemic dysfunction and feeling deeply unsatisfied despite her commitment to service, she made the bold decision to leave the security of public education.
Following direct spiritual guidance, Jesse built a multi-million-dollar coaching business serving healers, spiritual teachers, yoga instructors, and conscious entrepreneurs, many of whom were struggling with the "spiritual poverty" paradigm that kept them financially restricted despite their powerful gifts.Jesse's revolutionary framework treats money as spiritual technology and sales as spiritual practice. This approach has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs build and scale multi-six and seven-figure businesses without compromising their integrity, values, or spiritual commitments. Her clients learn to see money not as a necessary evil, but as a tool for liberation, empowerment, and expanded service.
Chapters
(00:00) Introduction: Money, Power, and Consciousness
(02:17) Jesse's Origin Story: From Algebra Teacher to Spiritual Business Coach
(05:57) The Moment Everything Changed: Leaving Education
(10:15) Meeting Her First Life Coach and Discovering Business
(13:31) When God Picked Money: The Divine Redirect
(15:33) The Blind Spot: Why Spiritual People Struggle with Money
(18:45) The False Choice Between Service and Wealth
(22:52) Xóchitl's Story: Breaking Generational Medicine Woman Poverty Patterns
(27:56) Coming Out as a Medicine Woman in the Business World
(30:04) The Power of Working by Donation: A Healthcare Story
(32:53) The Crisis: Losing Faith After Becoming a Mother
(34:05) From Multi-Million Dollar Business to Near Bankruptcy
(37:09) The Desert Period: Questioning Everything
(43:10) Heartbreak as Medicine: The Illusions We Construct
(45:06) Why Money is Spiritual Technology
(47:22) Money as Practice of Presence: The Having
(50:35) Legacy Question: One Last Message About Money
(54:12) Closing: Money in the Hands of Healers Changes the World