Today, we’d like to introduce you to Maria Florio.
Thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My story is to inspire human potential through mentorship, guiding, sharing stories, and being a voice on how to be yourself and tap into your infinite higher human consciousness. My life experience began when I was eight years old, and I decided that I was going to help people when I grew up.
People who are serious about inner and outer well-being, personal development, self-help, self-awareness, and reflection, and who are emotionally accountable, aware, and want to learn to self-regulate are the people who resonate with the Inspiring Human Potential (IHP) content, courses, and mentorship program opportunities, like the Inner Growth Mindset journey.
Furthermore, the IHP content sheds light on the distortions of the spiritual bypassing and holistic practitioners who have emotionally immature maladaptive child behaviors that aren’t healed and who are sharing spiritual stories that deviate from true spirituality and that are not helping people to pursue inner and outer well-being or enlightenment.
Teaching or guiding others on how to live a spiritual-human life requires an emotionally mature and open-hearted functional adult. This gives you the capacity to support others to expand consciousness and pursue their whole self, which also gives a person the capacity to live beyond the self as a member of society because of achieving a secure attachment and differentiated self from within. This is also how you get to be yourself authentically every day.
My personal spiritual-human-mystic journey and holistic practitioner background, and my attachment and trauma educational certificates and hours make it possible for me to share with people how the worlds of spirituality and sciences (human, spiritual, and spirituality elements is how I like to word it) come together.
I also inspire human potential by telling stories about what it’s like to live a spiritual-human-mystic life and how amazing consciousness is when you know, experience, and live the integration of the brain and a restorative embodied self-aware life. This is enlightenment, the human way, aka spiritual-human life, coming together and being put into practice in your day-to-day life.
The amazing journey to inner and outer well-being and expansion of consciousness in the now is what inspiring human potential is all about. Through the digital content that I create on the IHP YouTube channel and podcast platforms (Spotify for Podcasters, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and more podcast platforms) people find my IHP stories, perspectives and voices episodes.
They hear about human, spiritual, and spiritual elements (topics) to explore human evolution and consciousness. There are also perspectives on personal development, building relationships, self-development, and everything that can bring about an inner and outer well-being life, which inspires your human potential in every aspect of your day-to-day. Additionally, the IHP digital content podcast platforms have paid subscriber options and membership content options for the YouTube channel. “Ask Maria” is one of the options listeners and viewers have.
They ask for an episode dedicated to a personal development matter or self-help question they want answered. It’s an opinion columnist-type guidance episode for day-to-day spiritual-human life situations, personal development, inner growth mindset, mystic life and spirituality journey, and all inspiring human potential topics. The IHP community knows what I can help them with after getting to know me, the IHP content, the perspectives, stories, and knowledgeable areas, so it’s pretty straightforward.
Part of the IHP story also includes Event Guardian Angel Planner, LLC, which was founded in 2011 and dissolved in April 2024. The logo, eventgap.com website, name Event G.A.P., and social media channels remain active as part of the IHP online content and accompany the IHP with Maria brand and story, but Event Guardian Angel Planner, LLC, the company, is no longer active.
Today, the IHP topics expand from personal development and inner growth to holistic, mystic, ascension, and spiritual journeys, as well as attachment, trauma, integration, restorative embodiment, and the whole self and inner child conversations because I’ve expanded – personal experiences and education has gotten me here and will continue to inspire me to inspire others in practical ways.
I have also started to talk about a self-empowered woman’s perspectives about men, women, they, and what the polyamory lifestyle is like, as well as how to handle maladaptive child behavior and emotionally unavailable people, as well as those who don’t want to take emotional lifting and healing trauma seriously.
The mantles of spirituality and mental health are clear to those of us who care to inspire human potential because we’re proud to be human true selves and are not trying to be popular. We know the truth about every person – they each start to like us, as a child who needs a secure attachment environment for their well–being to take place and for them to achieve their true potential.
IHP brings together human, spiritual, and spiritual elements for the spiritual journey and achieving enlightenment in the human way. Personal development has expanded to discuss our inner well-being and achieving it thanks to reclaiming and living the restorative embodiment of self, achieving integration of the brain, and overflowing in our humanity.
I continuously update myself on attachment and trauma through online educational courses and certificate programs. This allows me to curate the IHP content and topics to cover important topics on how to achieve a lifestyle and mindset that is with secure attachment, a differentiated self, and that allows the inner child of every person to come out and play as a self-empowered, enlightened authentic self-compassionate human being.
It is a diverse arena to inspire human potential, and it is one where you get to share with people how amazing life can be when you have inner and outer well-being thanks to being yourself, your true and authentic self. It gets more amazing to inspire human potential as I get older.
Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has not been a smooth road, particularly due to people not believing in themselves and being solopreneurs without a big bank account. The struggles of working with a limited amount of time to build every piece of IHP content – from website to landing pages, to podcasts and video podcasts, and courses, etc. – and to get and keep it all online.
But also to get people to “buy into” how amazing it is to be yourself and find your inner and outer well-being. These aspects have also been a big struggle.
It’s only in the last years of attachment and trauma educational courses that I have been able to do more with the IHP content because of having the attachment and trauma, inner child, skeleton to share with people – this gives them a solid grasp on what it means to inspire human potential, to be yourself, to find inner and outer well-being.
I foresee this helping with the value of what I and the IHP content offer.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I want to say that I am an artist/creative, but I’m not only that. I also want to say that I am a professional and a business, but I’m not those things alone either.
And so, I am “Other,” and my other is that I am known for Inspiring Human Potential and for being an online marketer. In addition to these areas of specialization, I am also known for being a holistic practitioner, a mystic, a Reiki Master, a Tarot-Oracle card reader, and an Akashic records reader.
Furthermore, I am a podcast host and a video and digital content creator, and as a “master of all trades” in inspiring human potential, I keep adding to my areas of specialization. I’m sure the list of what I specialize in will keep growing as a professional who cares about helping people live their best lives now. I am most proud of doing my best to help people to find their inner and outer well-being in their day-to-day life.
What sets me apart is that I let people know that living your best life now entails bringing forth the real you and being yourself. Also, sharing this with the world around you is the most precious gift you can give others and yourself.
Before we let you go, we’ve got to ask if you have any advice for those just starting.
Perseverance is the key to success. If you don’t keep at it, you won’t get there. You also want to pivot when necessary and tweak. When things aren’t working out, get curious and test new ideas, check out what your competitors are doing, see what’s working for them, and try it out in your own way.
Also, education is essential. You want to keep expanding your educational background in whatever it is you do. Anyone who tells you to stop learning doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Learn from people you don’t agree with or like, too; you need to diversify your thought process with those who push you to think outside your box. Diversifying in a way that can come together with what you are doing is amazing, and so is working with people who complement you.
What I wish I had known when I was starting out was that people who think they know how to succeed don’t always actually know anything about success or how you should do things. No matter how big their name is or how many followers a professional or brand has, it doesn’t mean anything about whether they know how to help you and where you want to go with what you’re doing. Listen to yourself and find intellectually and emotionally mature, expanding people to work with.
Contact Info:
- Website: inspiringhumanpotential.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/marianflorio
- Facebook: facebook.com/inspiringhumanpotential1
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mariaflorio
- Twitter: twitter.com/luna12780
- Youtube: youtube.com/@inspiringhumanpotential
- Other: luna12780.com
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Maria Florio – Inspiring Human Potential
