What happens when a successful hairstylist with a fully booked salon walks away from her comfort zone to build a holistic wellness clinic and a frequency therapy app? This heartfelt conversation with Laura Widney, founder of Soaak Technologies and the Soaak app, explores sound healing, energy medicine, money mindset, aligned entrepreneurship, and the power of trusting timing, relationships, and inner guidance. This conversation is ideal for anyone drawn to the intersection of technology, wellness, frequency therapy, and personal growth.

In this conversation with Rachel, Laura gets into the real stuff, the inherited money beliefs she didn't know she had, the moment strangers wired money into her account, and why letting go of the outcome might be the most productive thing you ever do.

Laura Widney - founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Soaak Technologies.

After 16 years in the beauty industry and nearly a decade running a holistic wellness clinic, she built Soaak to make frequency therapy accessible to everyone — not just clinic clients. The Soaak app offers layered frequency compositions, daily mindful intentions, and 21-day immersion programs covering everything from sleep and stress to money mindset and inner healing.

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✦ Patience isn't passive, it's the foundation. Laura said it in a way that landed: "That one moment is not what made it all happen. It's all the preliminary things you had to wait for." The years she spent asking questions at every hair appointment, not pushing, just staying open that was the work. One thing worth sitting with: what are you already in the middle of building, even if it doesn't look like it yet?

✦ The right relationship changes everything. Laura's naturopathic doctor started as a hair client. For years they just talked. Then one lease ended, one salon was ready to sell, and they opened something together. Laura put it simply: "She had something she was supposed to give me." Staying open to that — not just professionally, but personally — is what made it possible.

✦ Your money beliefs were handed to you. Laura talked about how her father carried a "I don't need much money" mindset his whole life. A humble, beautiful value. But when Laura absorbed it unconsciously, it quietly worked against her in business. She had to name it, unpack it, and rewrite it. The Soaak finance program exists partly because she needed it herself first.

✦ Frequency therapy starts in the mind. Laura was clear: the sound frequencies in the Soaak app talk to your energy body. But if you're doing a session while mentally replaying an argument, you're working against yourself. That's why the app layers mindful intentions alongside the frequencies — to get the mind and body moving in the same direction. As Laura put it: "If you can get the mind right at the same time, the energy just clears."

✦ Don't be attached to the outcome — be attached to the steps. Laura's closing advice was the throughline of the whole conversation. Closed fists versus open hands. Forcing versus flowing. She still applies this daily — not as a passive stance, but as an active choice to trust the process while staying fully in the work. "At the end, it's going to be even better than you think, because you're in the flow of really good energy."

I loved getting a little deeper into Laura’s entrepreneurial journey. One of the most memorable part of this conversation was Laura's financial miracle story and not for the reason you might expect. Yes, strangers eventually wired money into her account to cover all her debt plus a year of operating expenses(!). But the part that stayed was what happened the weekend before the money arrived. Laura spent those two days wrestling with one question: do I even deserve this? She had to actively work through the belief that, because she'd struggled, she wasn't worthy of receiving help. The breakthrough wasn't the wire transfer. It was realizing she'd been blocking herself from receiving long before anyone offered anything.

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