Ivy: Welcome to the 2007 National Association of Women business Owners at Atlanta, Georgia. With me is Patricia E. Adams of the Zeitgeist group.
Patricia: Yes.
Ivy: And you do, you wear many hats, so let’s talk a little bit about your business.
Patricia: Zeitgeist Wellness group is located in San Antonio, Texas. We are a comprehensive wellness company providing on site chair massages, nutrition, personal trainers, mental health provider, occupational therapist, and even music therapist. So we believe in the concept of wellness.
Ivy: Now is this an idea you have all your life and then you decided that you’re gonna implement it or was it something that throughout the course of your career, you decided that that San Antonio area needed it?
Patricia: Well as the marriage and family therapist for over 16 years in San Antonio, I wanted a one stop shop for wellness. I wanted some place where you could get your mental health, your physical health, your spiritual health, all those things combine into one. Coz most of the times I’ve seen my clients and they will be over weight, suffering from depression, anxiety, and I’d say go to your nutritionist, go to your personal trainer. Three days later they come back, did you go? No, I just didn’t feel like it or I didn’t have the money or, you know, whatever. And so I thought, you know, one day I’m gonna have a one stop shop for all these services. So in our practice now our home, we have all those in one place. So instead of going across town to see the nutritionist, she’s right down the hall.
Ivy: That makes it easier on you.
Patricia: It does.
Ivy: The professional.
Patricia: It does. Because what people want, they really do want to be well. They want to be physically well. They don’t want to be overweight. They don’t want to be sluggish at work. They don’t want to have back problem, so the massage therapist does their massage, their personal trainers shows them how to work out, the nutritionist teaches them how to cook, and I take of their mental health needs.
Ivy: Mental and emotional health needs. Now talk about your book that’s coming out in September, the ABCs of Change.
Patricia: It’s a wonderful concept, because what I believe is that people bring three simple things to work, to life, to play, to marriage, to our relationships, and that’s what they feel their ethic. Their behaviors, is what they do, and see their cognation what they think, and so again, in psychological terms, you take those three ABCs, the building blocks of life and you put them together in six different ways, of course you have to read the book to get the rest of it. And we tell you, if you put these in a certain order, then we believe that you can have the change that most people want. They don’t want to be unhealthy, they don’t want to be, what I would consider maybe not healthy in their relationship, not healthy at work, not healthy with their children, not healthy as adult children. So I think the book gives them a simple road map on the road of life. Where do you wanna get? From point A to point B to point C.
Ivy: Now is that kind of help, other than in your book, accessible to everyone?
Patricia: Everyone. We used this when it comes to personal life. We used it when it comes to work life. When it comes to spiritual life, the ABCs are just that. The reading, and writing, arithmetic, remember when you went to school…
Ivy: No….
Patricia: Reading, and writing, arithmetic, so when I go ahead and write the book, I wanted something simple, because we always talked about how we feel, and what we do, and what we think. But when you put these ABCs in the order that we think is best and you see what drives you to feel the way that you feel, and do what you do, I think that you’ll see that there’s one out of those six that spell the word and on the road of life, that’s what you wanna do, is to get from one place to the next.
Ivy: How enlightening that’s got to be now. Patricia is actually a mother as well…
Patricia: A mother.
Ivy: …and a speaker.
Patricia: And a speaker.
Ivy: Are we missing anything?
Patricia: Well, I’m also a good wife, and a good mom, you feel my other kids to, but, you know, I like what I do as a business owner. I’ve been a member of NAWBO now for almost four years. I’m the secretary of our chapter in San Antonio, and I just love the energy that I get at the conference. I love the opportunity, the SBTV, guess for those of us who don’t mind sitting behind the camera and exposing themselves and talk about their businesses. So for me it’s been a good fit. I have 62 employees in 18 states, 20 subcontractors, and I am living my dream of being a successful business woman. And I say to anybody out there who has the dream, keep fighting to make it a reality, because one day it will be your reality, if you fight for it, and that’s what I did.
Ivy: Thank you Patricia.
Patricia: You’re very welcome.
Ivy: That was well said. Keep it right here as we spot, highlight more businesses here at the National Association of Woman Business Owners in Atlanta, Georgia.
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