I began caring for people as a child. From carrying my kid sister around everywhere while she wore leg braces, to being a daycare assistant at twelve, to volunteering at Camp Easter Seal during my high school summer breaks, becoming the youngest Physical Therapist assistant in WA state my senior year of high school, and even becoming a live- in nurse for a paraplegic at seventeen (all the while massaging everyone I could get my hands on) massage therapy was always a career that just clicked with my personality.
After I graduated from Seattle Massage School in 1995, I discovered that a gift and passion for healing were not enough to keep me well compensated. For the first seven plus years of my career I would sky rocket to the top position of whatever spa, country club or chiropractor’s office only to collapse with exhaustion, fevers and fainting spells. I massaged form morning until night, my schedule would be packed with repeat clients, and I would have to give it all up to rest away my fevers ,in between jobs, and start all over again.
To top this all off I was carrying a secret. My secret was that I was holding onto my client’s pain at the end of the day. I feared that no one would believe me if I sought help. I began to believe that to be a healer in this world you must resign to a life of suffering.
I finally got to the point where I had a choice to make: learn to take care of myself physically, emotionally, and financially, or stop doing what I loved the most in life.
Throughout the last years of my fourteen-year-long career I have earned an average of over $100 per hour giving massage. I have done this through a variety of avenues: Injury treatment massage such as PIP and L&I work, out call massage, VIP and celebrity massage, contracting MTs to corporate seated massage events, working with cancer survivors and stroke victims, providing massage to high end hotels, and traveling with VIPs.
All of this began through word of mouth reputation. My reputation was built on thinking outside the box, listening to my clients needs (which often directly oppose what the average MT is taught) and establishing strong ethics and boundaries while healing myself and my underline belief systems about money and the nature of healing.
My first book The Magic Touch: how to make $100,000 per year as a Massage Therapist is unlike anything you’ve currently read on the market. I am so sure of this, I provide a money-back guarantee.
My goal is to begin to put the world’s wealth into the hands of those that care. If a bleeding heart like myself can learn to be business savvy for the better good of the planet, then surely anyone can!
Here’s to redistributing the world’s wealth, one healer at a time! ~Meagan
You are a great inspiration! It’s a beautiful concept to confront the truths that are with in and validate them. Even when they are secrets. I pass your knowledge onto all of my grads. I ama fellow Seattle massage Grad as well. Plans for another book?? *ciao*