Today we’d like to introduce you to Raimee Botner.
Hi Raimee, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
All good stories come with time, and I think my life has been a beautiful journey in proving that. My life truly started after I met my husband in 2014, I had been floating like a petal in the wind for years before then.
Loving life, proving myself, losing myself, then finding myself yearning for something more. That is most young adults’ life, right? Then it happened, I met my husband who I truly believe, served as the biggest motivation to find my calling in life.
Adam is an audio engineer that loves his career more than anyone I had ever met. He wasn’t just working to survive, he was thriving, and I was now along for the ride. Fast forward a few years, we brought a sweet little soul into the world.
And my whole life shifted once again. Everything I thought I knew, learned, and yearned for was now aligned with this beautiful little boy. As a new mama, I realized I was no longer living for myself, I wasn’t me for me, I wanted to be the best me for him.
There is where my shift happened, I felt the call to travel, learn, and provide space for myself and others to be supported. I became the woman of my dreams, the friend I needed. I spent time retreating, learning, and fully engaged in becoming a space holder. This started out as women’s circles, cacao ceremonies, retreats, and now has bloomed into a community.
Actually, to think about it, I should also back up and say this isn’t my only work, while I was embarking on all things healing, I brought in a new hobby of tie-dying. My years of music festivals came back to play! And holy turds I was good at it!
I started my own business pretty quickly (yes moms can do anything and everything at once). Sovereign mama was built to share everything with the world, healing, rainbow clothing, beautiful ritual candles and has become so much more lately!
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Smooth? When do you learn with a life that has a paved road? Nonetheless, I’ll always take the ridged mountain trail. I enjoy the scenery of the constant change, the trials, and errors, and the people you meet along the path that might possibly help you find a better way.
My journey in my business has been truly one for the books, and I am grateful for it. My biggest lesson over the past 5 years has been boundaries! Ya’ll keep them, you deserve it. I can easily take on too much, as most mamas do. But As the years pass and the grays keep showing up, I longer put up with not knowing my worth in my offerings and time.
If we spend so much time doing what other people want, like only creating for what the customer wants, what the attendee wants…. we forget what we enjoy. Do what sets your soul on fire and you’ll notice people come for the warmth.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Spring has sprung for this mama! I am currently booked up with craft shows with my tie-dyes! Which I absolutely love creating! I am also booking events for ceremonies around town and at my Magical Abode. I Have an event in June that will be called A Evening with the Sovereign Collective.
Which will showcase a few lovely musicians, a beautiful Cacao ceremony, and a family dinner home-cooked meal afterward. In mentioning that, I am also currently curating an All Women’s (or identifying) Full Moon Market with a full night of Soul & Funk music at a local venue. Soul Full Market, so keep a lookout for that magic!
I am dedicated to pulling all of my creative paths together to create a community of support for healing, small businesses, musicians, and anyone in between. You can find all my event dates on my website, along with my dyes, private parties, and 1:1 ceremony details.
We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
Honestly, tough question, as I don’t remember a lot, ADHD mama here. But there is always one memory that pops up when I think about growing up. I have the most beautiful relationship with my papa, seriously I can’t even put it into words. I took him to red rocks to see STS9 in 2014, I hadn’t seen him in a couple of months.
When he saw me with my newly neon purple hair, he looked at me and said “I think you should have been born with purple hair”. And at that moment, it seriously filled every void I had about myself. He has a way of touching my heart and making sure I know that I am supported even when I am at my weirdest.
I talk to him daily, and there’s never a time that he doesn’t tell me how proud he is of me even when I ramble off my 1000 ideas in 10 minutes, and I hope he truly knows how much it means to me.
Contact Info:
- Email: sovereignmamadyes@gmail.com
- Website: www.sovereignmama.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/sovereignmama
