Meet Bonnie Casamassima | Founder, Researcher & Mentor

We had the good fortune of connecting with Bonnie Casamassima and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Bonnie, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
Founding Intuitive By Nature was a result of following a series of nudges. As my own intuitive abilities started deepening and expanding, I began talking with others about their journey connecting with their intuition. The more conversations I had I realized how much people craved deeper connections and a supportive community around understanding and fostering their intuitive abilities and experiences. That led me to create and lead a review-board approved (ie. follows academic research protocol) research project interviewing 50 highly intuitive people from around the world on their journey connecting with their intuition. The findings from that project were pretty life-changing for me and greatly influenced the creation and direction of the Intuitive By Nature of today.

What should our readers know about your business?
Thank you for these great questions. I’m most excited about the possibilities of expansion with this work. I feel deeply in my bones that we’re so phenomenal as humans. We’re unlimited. We just have the opportunity to let ourselves be IF we want. I know I get in my own way ALL the time. It’s an ongoing journey of inner-work, identifying when I limit myself and try to work on strategies to grow through my limitations each day.

Deepening our connection with our intuition and inner-wisdom can be such a powerful guide in navigating our expansion journey. Throughout the research, people shared over and over again that the more they developed an intentional relationship with learning how to connect with and then following their intuition and inner wisdom, the healthier, happier and more expansive they felt in their day-to-day life. The more quickly they were able to tune into their inner-clarity and out of limiting themselves! Shew! For me, these findings alone are what lights me up so powerfully. They’ve driven the creation of the Intuitive By Nature of today. How can we use research and a WHOLE lotta joy to tune more fully into our intuition to use it as a compass for our unlimited life?

Building on this, a light-bulb moment for me was seeing that “we’re allowed to have fun along that healing and expansion journey too!” Yes, it can be sticky at times, but there’s ample research supporting it. My background is in the research areas as a Professor and within corporate America before that. Research within areas such as Positive Psychology and Neuroscience share that the more we let ourselves be our authentic selves, tune into our intuition and be in more a state of play, the more quickly we’re able to form deeper connections with each other, the easier decision-making becomes, we increase the rate at which we retain new information, and our stress levels are lowed! Shew again!

These realizations are the drivers of the group programs and workshops I’m honored to lead with individuals, organizations and companies. It’s so inspiring seeing people light-up and be themselves THEN carry that deeper connection with themselves and their intuition into their family, friend and work lives! I’m super giddy now typing about it! 🙂

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I love hosting friends! I’d take them downtown, for a hike to become one with the moss in the mountains and then to catch a great live-band. I LOVE dancing to live-music and many of my friends do too. To me, there’s nothing like it. The energy that’s created by people sharing their art through joy and then the exchange of energy from the crowd back to the band….”chef kiss!” magic.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Oh my goodness! There are so many incredible inspiring people and mentors along my journey! Specific people that come to mind for intuition focused work are Jamie Butler and the incredible mentorship and community she fosters in all she does! Ellen Mathys, MPH and Kimmy Yon for their leadership of another powerful intuition mentorship. The incredible research analysis, partner and Intuitive by Nature podcast co-host Celeste Paige Sample. And of course, my incredible and loving partner, Aaron Searcy. His unwavering partnership and support throughout this experience so far has been deeply helpful throughout the journey.

Website: https://www.intuitivebynature.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intuitive_by_nature/?hl=en

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-casamassima-4ab31714/

Image Credits
I’ve included the photographer names in the name of the file to note each one. Ones without a name are my own

Jalynn Baker

Edie @ickyedie

Bonnie Casamassima