Quartz Dream on Court Street

Quartz Dream on Court Street

I started manifesting owning a crystal store in 2018. The thought of it, is what got me through so many bad days. I had Pinterest boards, I spent hours looking for storefronts available for lease. It was my wildest dream and one I didn’t think would ever come true. While I was manifesting my crystal store I had a job in the fitness industry. I was a sales associate, sales manager, GM and regional Manager in the years I spent dreaming about this place. I would read tarot cards at work, make crystal jewelry while sitting at my desk, and even build programs for manifesting all while I was supposed to be working. As Paulo coelho says “it’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” and the possibility of having a dream come true is what got me through. Those years were extremely difficult and my personal life was a huge struggle because all I did was work. I went through times where I didn’t take a day off for 2 months straight, times where I went to work sick as a dog, commuted for 5 hours there and back. You get it I worked hard.

At one point in my life I had manifested my career in the fitness industry becoming a GM, opening up a brand new gym and I did. But I quickly realized that couldn’t be all there was for me. I was so unhappy, though most people wouldn’t be able to tell. Hell even I couldn’t tell.

The years were just passing by and I was working my life away, until a friend of mine invited me to her bachelorette weekend in Palm Springs. I brought my tarot cards because it would have been sacrilege not to. An all girls weekend and no tarot ? I knew no one there besides the brides, and this would also give me an opportunity to know everyone there. As you could imagine everyone wanted a reading, and almost everyone cried. That’s when my friend said to me “you are so lit up when you read, I’m in awe of you” her saying that made me realize I was sleeping on a talent and a gift and before their wedding I had launched my website.

Thanks cat for reminding me who i am.

After launching my website, I started doing what I do best. I started manifesting and it worked. I was invited to host a vision board party at a hair salon 12/30/22. My dreams were starting to come to life. The event wasn’t my best work, and in actuality was one of the hardest days of my life. The ceiling at my GM job had a leak and collapsed to the floor the same day as my event and my boss insisted on me staying late that day, which gave me little time to prepare. Talk about breaking ceilings.  But everyone who attended loved it and because of it I made a vision board of my own. I was going to open my store, don’t ask me how but I was going to do it. I wrote down that it would be open by 10/10/23. When manifesting you have to be a little delusional but even this was a bit much for me to believe could happen.

21 days after the event in January 2023 on the way to work I saw 555 which means change, and I had a vision flash into my brain about working somewhere else. And then I saw 555 again seconds later. I knew something was coming, later that day in a Monday zoom meeting was when the straw broke the camels back. My boss said something belittling to me and as rage flooded through my veins my phone rings. It was a number I recognized but I couldn’t remember who it was and since I was in a zoom I couldn’t answer it. I told myself I’d google the number when the call was done, but before I could I got an email. It’s from the CEO of a company I had previously applied for, asking if I was open to another conversation.

BINGO i found my way out, after sitting with her for 3 hours listening to her talk about herself, I did realize this probably isn’t my home but I’m going to follow the signs and see where I land. She sends me an offer and it wasn’t quite what I was expecting and fear settled in. What if I’m making the wrong choice etc… so I countered the offer. If I was going to leave my job it needed to be worth it. Her assistant declined my counter, and I very politely declined the position. I felt very sure that I was worth more than what they had offered me. Moments later I get another email from the CEO saying I’ll pay whatever you need.

This for sure felt fishy and I knew I was signing a deal with the devil, but I also decided to ask for more than what I previously asked for in the counter. If you’re gonna dance with the devil better make sure you can tango.

The offer was immediately sent over at the price I requested and I had this sinking feeling that I was walking to my death while simultaneously knowing this extra money was exactly how I could open my store.

As I accepted the offer, and sent in my resignation to my other job, I wrote on a piece of paper“ I am worthy of my wildest dreams” because I am and we all are and with that I took a leap.

From my first day on the job I knew, I knew with every ounce of my being. I was going to fucking hate this job.

It was a shit show to say the least, the way they did things was so over complicated and impersonal for all the employees and there was no fast track to changing it. But I did what I always do I put my head down and did my best. The goals were impossibly high, and they were understaffed and there were days as a regional manager I covered the front desk in 3 different studios. I opened at 4 am and closed. If I thought I was going to be working on my business I had another thing coming.

And then like a miracle I get booked a reading, I hadn’t had a reading booked in months. I remembered I had a dream because of this booking, and I left the early to go get my cards. This client had never booked with me before and I was thrilled, she had seen me tagged on a friend of hers IG from the vision board event  i mentioned earlier. From the moment I laid eyes on her I knew she was an answered prayer. She really started it all for me. After that reading she referred her friends, who referred their friends and next thing you know I was getting booked regularly. Not the type of revenue you can open a business with but it felt good to atleast be reading tarot.

I would read tarot at that god awful place I worked at  while classes were in session and I thought I could hang in there because atleast I had this. That’s when I got a call, from my counter part at that job. She let me know the CEO was thinking about letting me go. Which didn’t surprise me. I had decided I’d let her fire me if that was the case and I’d do my job as best as I could until then.

That’s when one of  the worst weeks of my life began.

Everyone was calling out of work, I was only one person and couldn’t cover all of the shifts but I did my best and even then people were no showing shifts it was a hot mess and it was all on me. Why was I staying ? I was the most miserable I had been in my life and the most under appreciated I had been in my life. That week I cried so hard that I hyper ventilated. At the beginning of 2023 I committed to being the happiest version of myself and I had easily became the opposite of that. I QUIT. In 4 months a job had managed to suck my soul of anything I had left. “I’m worthy of my wildest dreams” and I will burn down every bridge on the way to them. I had no back up plan but I sure as hell wasn’t going to choose misery.

I decided I’d read tarot and apply for any and every opportunity I could. Ooooh wee was that a scary place to be, but I had this weird sense it would all work out. That’s when I got a text from my friend who said would you be interested in a temporary remote sales position? Fuck ya I would. And there’s the universe with its feather pillow waiting for me at the bottom of the cliff I jumped off.

This job was the perfect opportunity for me. It was remote and I wouldn’t be micro managed and it was something I was good at. Sales. It was a dream come true. The money was good, the comp plan even better. With the salary and the bonus I would make more than I did at my previous job. WTF !  I could actually open my store now that I was remote. The job was an experiment though so not a ton of job security but I figured hey if I get good at this in a couple of years I’d be at a better place to do both.

I accepted the position and I started doing extremely well, hitting my highest payout every month. That’s when I started manifesting moving up within this company and I realized what the hell are you doing ? You took this job so you could make your store happen, not to move up. So I decided to get a tattoo on my hand to remind myself daily that I was working toward quartz dream. My tattoo was what I wrote in my journal right before I quit my gm job. I am worthy of my wildest dreams.

2 days after getting the tattoo form of my manifestation my dad calls me and says “ let’s open your store” I was shook. I was even more shaken when 2 days after that we are meeting with a realtor at a location. I loved this place and it was exactly where I had envisioned my store would be on Main Street in Martinez my hometown.

We told the realtor we wanted it and they sent over the paperwork and said they’d let us know what the owner said. That’s when my fear settled in again. It took a month to let us know but they decided they were going a different direction. I was devastated.

I came so close just to lose it, I spent the next two days despondent on the couch, when I get an email from our realtor.

She found another spot. It wasn’t listed yet and she was the first to know about it. 1034 court street. Now if you haven’t put two and two together yet my business is named Quartz Dream a play on words for Courts dream and it being a crystal store filled with Quartz and it was on fucking court street. Ok universe well played I hear you.

This was the place, the foot traffic would be next to zero, and the rent was more than I had made all year from my readings but I knew it was for me. The lease was only one year long, and there was a part of me that knew I’d only be there for a year the moment I signed. The day I signed the lease was 10/14/23. Not 10/10 like id wanted but when it’s that close can you even not believe ? The universe heard me, and made it very easy for me to see I was where I was supposed to be.

Which leads me to the present moment 10 months after opening my business with so much gratitude in my heart for every experience I had there. I have decided not to renew my lease. This place was exactly what I needed to realize what courts dreams really are. And courts dream was never about something external the truth is courts dream is to make an impact through spirituality. To read as many tarot cards in a day as physically possible. To change the vibration, to promote well being, and happiness. To fulfill my dreams by helping others fulfill theirs.

My dream is to write this book, my dream is to make your dream feel a little more possible.but sometimes the path to where you’re going leads you right back where you started.