BORN TO BUILD
THE NEW

your purpose work + the paradigm shift

Your purpose work. It’s not just your business. It’s a mission, a calling, and the work you know you’re here for. When it’s not moving, working, or flowing in the way you know it’s meant to, it can feel like an existential rub. You can’t walk away from who you are.

If you’ve been asking — Why won’t this move? — something underneath the surface needs attention.

The energy.
The identity.
The structure.

When those are tangled, the build feels tangled. When they are clear, your build starts building.

That’s what we do here.

As an Energy Guide and Identity Seer for new paradigm builders, I help you get to the root of what’s going on with your purpose work, see who the work is asking you to become, and build it in a way that actually feels like you… not a generic template.

It’s a big exhale.

Build what you’re here for.
Close out what holds you back.
Own your mission. Lead your calling.

Begin with a Build session

  • "This has been for me the ultimate up level and has helped me to see, feel and know who I truly am and my role here in the paradigm shift."

    Vanessa is a true leader and guide for the times we are in. I feel a level of confidence and trust in myself, my gifts, and abilities, that I’ve longed for. The teachings in this program are more than just educational, they are an energetic transmission that transforms and expands you on every level. I feel like I have only touched the surface of how deeply this has impacted my life, hard to put into words! 

    - Kate Megee, Transformational Coach, Spiritual Messenger, certified Energy Guide, and co-host of Awakening Conversations podcast. 1:1 Mentorship Client & student in my Energy Guide Certification program.

  • "The amount of personal growth I’ve had with Vanessa blows my mind."

    The community connections and practical tools have built my trust and aligned me with my purpose. Sessions with Vanessa are amazingly detailed, and she doesn’t hold back! She really does have a gift to see through all the static that builds up around us. The validation and encouragement I get from her gives me the motivation to not let fear take over anymore. I’m so thankful to have her on my team. She’s quirky, fun, and has an inspiring sense of style!

    - Katie Hill, Systems Strategist and certified Energy Guide for visionary healers. Founder of Your Digital Healer.

  • "At our first meeting, Vanessa saw me immediately. She recognised and understood my gifts in ways that other healers had not been able to."

    This work has helped me to step into confidence and security as a highly sensitive person and provider: one that brings all of me - my training, education, spirituality and energetic gifts into one New Earth practitioner expression. Vanessa is a visionary who can see one's potential and nurture its growth. Beyond this, Vanessa is fun to work with; she clearly cares and enjoys her work. She is organised, creative and seasoned in her business acumen. She is a clean channel who does the work and walks "The Walk".

    Sarah Soggs, Doctor of Physical Therapy & Intuitive Healer, 1:1 Mentorship Client

  • "Vanessa is not like other coaches. She cuts through the BS and is highly tuned in energetically, with me, and the collective."

    Even though I've had extensive training in various energy fields, I am still learning lots of new techniques for managing my energy and gaining greater depth on concepts I was already familiar with. Vanessa truly is a master teacher - clear, grounded, relatable, with heart and humility - a rare find.

    Anne Lane, Energy Healer, Naturopath specializing in Holistic Fertility, and Speaker on Healthy Anger. 1:1 Mentorship Client & student in my Live energy programs

  • "My perspective on energy and its role in all aspects of my life deepened."

    Vanessa has been an integral part of my healing and spiritual journey going on 6 years now! Her wisdom and commitment to her own personal growth and integrity have been examples of how to navigate this path with all of its highs, lows, and everything in between with grace and humility. I've had the pleasure and benefit of being a part of the first Energy Guide cohort, and I'm back for round two. I highly recommend Vanessa and her offerings to anyone that wishes to expand their understanding of how we can work with energy to heal and create a new reality.

    - Amanda Richardson-Meyer, photographer, new paradigm thought leader, certified Energy Guide, and co-host of the Awakening Conversations podcast. 1:1 Mentorship Client and member in many of my groups.

  • "The process Vanessa took me through was incredibly transformational."

    … and now being a student in her Energy program, I am going through the modules a second time several months later after watching them. It is so inspiring and affirming to review both the context and specifics you share about these evolving energy systems. It is also very clear what a passionate master teacher of these concepts you are Vanessa! In reflection I can see/hear how this content is being delivered through your high heart!

    - Aime Miyamoto, Leadership Alignment Guide, Human Design Business Strategist, and Profit Potential Coach for creative changemaker ceo’s. 1:1 Client and 2024 student in my Energy Guide Program.

  • "Vanessa's powerful intuitive gifts cut the noise & get right to the core."

    She went straight to a pattern I was completely unaware of, which helped me quickly shift where I thought I was stuck. Plus, her amazing course is changing the way I look at myself, my life, my work and my relationships. Seeing it all through the lens of Energy has opened up new ways of tackling issues that before have seemed insurmountable.

    - Helen Fletcher, Healer, Channel, and certified Energy Guide specializing in supporting awakening healers in transforming their fears and claiming their gifts. 1:1 Mentorship Client and 2024 student of the Energy Guide Certification program

You were built for these times

Hi, I’m Vanessa Smith. Energy Guide. Identity Seer.

As a new paradigm builder myself, I get what it takes to merge your business and calling, to use your gifts in a way that’s actually aligned for you instead of following someone else’s template.

After two decades in the transformational field, I’ve seen the same thing happen again and again…

You know you’re here for a larger purpose, want to use your gifts, but get tripped up in the process.

The work isn’t moving the way it should. The message isn’t fully landing. The money flow doesn’t match the depth of what you bring. And you can’t quite put your finger on why.

That’s where I come in.

My process is simple:

  • Unlock the block.

  • Build aligned to you.

  • Bridge to the right people.

My specialty is seeing what’s going on underneath the surface of your purpose work — the work you’re here to be known and paid for — and helping you create the energy, identity, and structure it needs to move as you know it’s meant to.

Once that process is mapped, embodied, and expressed, your purpose work begins to bloom.

You feel better. The work comes to life. You start connecting with the right people. Your creative expression starts to flow again. That’s right livelihood at its finest — work that feels alive, aligned, and actually built for you, all while shifting the paradigm by building the new. Let’s get started.

Here’s my stance:

We are living in wild times.

It’s a paradox, while the old is breaking down we need to build the new, in our work and our lives. Not always an easy feat given all that’s going on. That’s why I focus on the mess and the mission.

I’m not here to spiritually bypass or pretend hard stuff doesn’t happen. It does. We need to know how to work with it, practically and energetically.

Knowing the underlying energy dynamics - individually and collectively - changes the game. It gives us the lens, tools, and awareness to shift our worldview and build what we stand for.

Tune in to the Podcast

Inside the build. Real talk about what it actually looks like to build what you're here for.

➥ When clarity comes, what blocks it, and being in the in-between.
➥➥ What challenges all new paradigm builders face and how these can fuel the vision.
➥➥➥ When old versions of you show up, new versions of you emerge, and how to integrate both.

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Courses & Certification

Chat By Design
Unblock Your Build
Money & Your Mission
Tapping Into Trust
Protect Your Energy course
Clear Your Energy
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The New Empath
Energy Boundaries for Healers

What clients are saying

Sarah, Physical Therapist & Intuitive Healer

Kate, co-host of Awakening Conversations

Leslie, ND, Midwife, Embodiment Guide

Walk your talk. Live your truth.

We often know what needs to shift in our lives - and within us - to feel more aligned with our purpose work in the world.

But for those of us born to build the new, a different kind of integrity is required. One where we not only hold the vision of what could be, but also embody that energy in our daily reality even though it hasn’t yet been built.

That’s what leadership is really about - walking your talk, living your truth.

In my life, that translated to following my intuition across continents without any evidence it would work out (but it did!). Click here to read the story.

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