Jaime Mintun is a fierce advocate for the Wild Woman, the Goddess, what is vulnerable, honest and enduring in the feminine. Her passion is not about singling out women so much as celebrating the deep parts of ourselves – the sacred in the feminine AND masculine – that we often deny, drown or otherwise devastate.
Deeply spiritual, with a personal as well as academic interest in ancient esoterica, enduring paths of wisdom, archetypal narrative, and the sciences beginning to prove the validity of each, Jaime has embraced the life of a spiritual pilgrim and as such is hard to pin down, both in location and in essence. She is many things. And we’re pretty sure they contradict each other…
-
At 29 years of age, it’s hard to imagine that Jaime has been managing an international pantheon of world-renowned clients for nearly a decade. Specializing in the multi-million dollar launches and social marketing of clients to the online marketplace, Jaime’s clients include social media network BlogTalkRadio.com, bestselling author and health expert Jorge Cruise, living food nutrition and superfood author/expert David Wolfe, non-profit organization Just Like My Child Foundation, and many others.
Jaime has been featured on the #1 freelancer’s advice site, FreelanceSwitch.com, was recently a keynote presenter for mega-marketing education firm Stompernet (who has recently licensed one of her consulting how-to products to provide to their members), and has managed, advised, and landed hundreds of projects for marketing consultants all over the world.
Now she has reduced her marketing activities to a handful of loyal and conscious clients, focusing on overall strategy implementation and copywriting.
-
Beginning a small life coaching practice at the age of 22, Jaime got her first lessons in innovative marketing… because what the heck can a 22 year old know about life and what nutty person would hire her?
It turned out there were quite a few who would! (But we won’t call them nutty.)
Over the years, Jaime evolved her boutique practice into an online business, creating information products and ebooks that would assist practical spiritual growth and lifestyle design: providing step-by-step processes and resources for engaging universal laws and natural human tendencies (rather than trying to fight them).
Currently in discussions with publishers and companies to present these materials under a new brand with supportive, social and community tools as well as live events and retreats, her original products are temporarily unavailable to the public.
-
It wasn’t so long ago that travel was a dream, the developing world an uncomfortable other that intrigued her but mostly made her nervous, and the mere mention of “adventure” promptly inspired a dash in the opposite direction.
But then a series of trampled dreams and maddening failures kicked her in the ass and woke her up. Things started to change. And then she discovered Osho’s Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously and a week later she gave up her home, boxed up her belongings, packed up her car and became a “Perpetual Tourist.” Yeah, technically that means she’s homeless.
The transformation occurred over a few years but the final throttle into full-time adventurer came abruptly. She has now white water rafted through the Grand Canyon with the local natives, hiked the slot canyons and vistas of Utah and Arizona, gambled a one-way ticket to Canada for a chance at love and “to see about a boy.” She’s challenged herself with a 17-day spiritual fast, endured a spontaneous and earth-shattering Kundalini awakening, and has become quite adept at managing world-famous clients and assisting their multi-million dollar launches all from the road less traveled.
In March she will finish her trek across the States and embark overseas to Thailand, Malaysia, Africa and India. From there… well the world awaits.
You can follow her adventures at www.Anagamin.com.
-
Ask 5-year old Jaime Mintun what she wanted to be when she grew up and she’d confidently tell you she’d be a writer. And she is. But that child had envisioned the outlandish vistas of some made-up world, populated with a bevy of characters that would clash, collide, and basically make a mess of things.
She did not envision elegant marketing campaigns and hype-ridden sales pages.
And so Jaime leads somewhat of a secret life… a part-time wildish self that plays itself out against the page. Her study and exploration of narrative, plot and creative writing have deeply informed her other projects. Great marketers will always tell you that their chief (and only) duty is to create a good story. Spiritual teachers and self-help advocates are more and more coming to narrative (as their ancient counterparts always had) for life authorship and spiritual transformation.
In fact her forthecoming self-help book is a fictional parable that invokes a powerful archetype to teach us how to die forward. As she explains to her clients…
To live is to become intimately acquainted with death and all our little dyings… To fail in these pivotal transformations is to lead an ashen life, to become the walking dead; in limbo one is cast out of the vibrant teeming and unfolding of a life moving forward, held back by the gravity of an essential death she did not allow.
The solution to this numb and frustrating stagnation is simple, but it isn’t easy. One must go through the eye of the storm she’s been running away from. One must learn how to die.
This is of course not a mortal death, but rather the end to what no longer serves us, what tragically deserted us, and of the parts of us that need to be healed.
Unlike many fiction writers, Jaime does not write her fiction only to entertain. Her stories evoke the same transformation, self-realization and change that her self-help and spiritual writings produce. The difference is that narrative can engage the subconscious and shift people internally, without forcing them to follow conscious step-by-step programs or force new habits that can be unsettling and stressful. Either approach can be effective. Jaime happens to enjoy forging both.
Sorry, comments are closed.
