Today we’d like to introduce you to Laura Reese.
Hi Laura, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I was born and raised in Alabama, growing up in a traditional family setting that shaped much of my early life. But at 19, I made a bold decision—one that few women at the time would dare to make—and flew to California, seeking something more. Los Angeles became my home, and I quickly found myself moving in circles of influence. Yet, despite the outward glamour and success, I realized that something essential was missing within me. My life felt unfulfilled, and I began to ask deeper questions about purpose, meaning, and the nature of true happiness.
This search led me to the metaphysical arts. Determined to find answers, I sought out a mentor and was introduced to Dr. Theresa Bullard, Ph.D., a remarkable teacher who took me under her wing. With her guidance, I began an intensive journey of training within the Modern Mystery School INT. I received the answers the resonated with my core, I experienced alchemical
transformation by immersing myself in the metaphysical world. At age 26 I moved to New York City working in fashion and beauty photography, began traveling the world, maturing spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually. Then, at 30 years old, I knew I was ready to step into the role of motherhood.
My daughter’s birth marked a new chapter in my life. Shortly after, I accepted the profound opportunity to become a spiritual guide within a 3,000-year-old lineage—a sacred tradition known as the Lineage of King Salomon. After three years of rigorous training, I completed my studies and moved to Fort Lauderdale, where I opened my business, Glass Roots Energetics, to share the esoteric teachings and keys to empowerment with others who, like me, are searching for deeper meaning in life.
Today, I co-operate a Holistic Wealth Management firm in West Palm Beach, Florida, called Luminous Wealth, where we integrate financial strategy with personal alignment and purpose. Additionally, I co-operate a Meditation Centre in Sarnia, Canada, where we continue to guide and inspire individuals on their spiritual journeys. Every step of my path has been driven by a desire to empower others, just as I was once empowered, and to help people discover the richness of life that comes with alignment, clarity, and awareness of higher purpose.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I was nineteen years old the first time the world asked me to decide who I was going to be.
That year, my father took his own life. There are no words that adequately prepare a daughter for that kind of grief—no roadmap for the particular silence that follows, no instruction for how to carry a loss so enormous it reshapes the very landscape of who you believe yourself to be. I was nineteen, unmoored, and staring at a life that suddenly looked nothing like what I had imagined.
And so I left.
Leaving Alabama meant walking away from my family, my support system, and my inheritance—not just the material kind, but the invisible scaffolding of community and belonging that most people never think to name until it is gone. Overnight, I was exiled from the close-knit Christian community I had grown up in. The ties that had defined me—my roots, my people, my place—were severed in a single season of grief and departure. I stepped into a world I had no preparation for, armed with little more than my own two hands and a quiet, stubborn determination to survive and somehow learn to thrive.
There was no safety net. No plan. There was only the road ahead and the choice to align with good and keep walking.
In the reality of lost privilege and absent preparation, I developed something more durable: awareness. I learned to read rooms, to read people, to trust the quiet signals that most are taught to dismiss. In every position I found myself in—some beautiful, some bruising—I learned to listen to my intuition and to allow it to guide me: away from harm, and toward the opportunities that were quietly waiting for someone willing to pay attention.
Intuition, I discovered, is not mysticism. It is intelligence in its most distilled form. It is the accumulated wisdom of every experience you have ever survived, speaking to you in a language quieter than words. I learned to honor that voice. It became my compass when no map existed.
I have never had the luxury of playing small, of being a victim, of carrying arrogance, or of consciously sowing negative seeds into the world around me. Those were indulgences I could not afford—not karmatically, not spiritually. And so I chose something different. I chose goodness. Not because it was easy, but because I came to understand, slowly and then all at once, that goodness is its own kind of currency.
The good deeds I gave freely—the kindnesses extended without expectation, the generosity offered even in seasons of scarcity—did not disappear into the air. They accumulated. Between myself and the universe, I built up a surplus of good karma, a reservoir I could draw upon when I needed to manifest something essential: a car, a home, a meal, an open door. This was not magical thinking. This was cause and effect, studied in the most intimate classroom available—my own life. I came to understand, with bone-deep clarity, the role I played in shaping the experiences I was having. What I put into the world returned to me. What I withheld, I went without. The Hermetics were precise and, once understood, quietly liberating.
Before California, there was a marriage born not of love but of escape. I married to get away—a decision that carried its own consequences. I became pregnant, and then, in a grief that layered itself on top of all the others, I miscarried. The marriage was annulled. I was 18 years old, alone again, and standing at another crossroads.
I chose California – the furthest I could get away while still being in my home country.
I flew West with no guarantees and the particular kind of courage that has nothing to lose. And it was in Beverly Hills, at twenty, that I met him—a world-renowned beauty and fashion photographer whose name carried weight in rooms I was just beginning to enter. When I was twenty-six, We began dating and building businesses together. Real estate bought and sold, a shared vision of a future taking shape with every conversation, every venture, every plan laid out across a table in the belief that two people, together, could create a legacy that would be positively impactful.
And then came the greatest venture of all: our daughter.
For three years, we tried to conceive her. Three years of hope held tightly and released gently, month after month, until finally—she arrived. She was coming. She was real. And in the season that should have drawn us closer together, he left. He left me pregnant, alone, and face-to-face with a kind of abandonment that tested every reserve of strength I had ever built.
I new I could not stay in New York City to grow her so I moved us into nature. First to the Big Island in Hawii then to the mountains outside of New York City.
There was something instinctive in that choice—something the body knows before the mind can articulate.
The silence out there was not empty; it was full. Full of the kind of clarity that only comes when the noise of humans has fallen away.
During these 9 months, I learned the full measure of what I was made of- I felt as if I had become invincible and could take on anything life threw at me!
She was born into bliss on a spring morning, at home, no medication – in the organic way of the women who came before us.
At 4 months old, I moved us further still.
Our fifty-acre ranch sat in the Sequoias—among some of the oldest and largest living trees on earth. We lived in an eighteen-foot tent imported from India, it was beautiful – nicely placed upon a beautiful deck overlooking the rapidly flowing river that ran through our property. Yes, there were black bears, mountain lions, rattlesnakes all around, but they never bothered us, but rather existed as guardians, eyes for mother nature protective and still. I cooked our meals over an open fire and generated solar power to pump drinking water up to our outdoor kitchen and bathhouse. My daughter grew, learning to walk and crawl over the boulders along the river, took her naps on a sheepskin in a hammock hanging from a large oak tree – the open sky always above her head.
It was, by any conventional measure, a life stripped of unnecessary distractions all the while abundant with the essentials. And it was, in the most profound sense I have ever experienced, a life overflowing with vitality and connection.
Nature is not a backdrop. For those who live inside it—truly inside it, not simply adjacent to it—nature is a teacher, a healer, and a mirror. She showed us both what matters. She showed us both what lasts. And she grew something in my daughter that no institution, no curriculum, and no amount of comfort could have manufactured: an unshakable sense of confidence and belonging to herself.
Our time in the Sequoias came with tremendous challenges—logistical, emotional, physical. But challenge, I have learned, is not the enemy of faith. It is the forge in which faith is made real.
And then, in the spring of 2020, COVID swept across the world.
The pandemic that paralyzed nations and fractured communities arrived while we were already living in voluntary simplicity, already stripped of excess, already intimate with what it means to meet each day with only what is necessary. In many ways, the mountains had prepared me for exactly this—for the uncertainty, the isolation, the sudden global understanding that none of us are as in control as we believed ourselves to be. What COVID could not touch was what had already been forged in fire: the resilience built in Alabama’s absence, the faith grown in the mountains, the bond between a mother and her daughter, made strong in the Sequoias’ shade.
I have been told, more times than I can count, that my story is remarkable. I receive that with gratitude, but I want to offer a gentle correction: my story is human. Loss is human. Reinvention is human. The choice to meet difficulty with goodness rather than bitterness—that is human, too, even when it is hard, even when it is lonely, even when no one is watching.
What I know now, with the particular certainty that only lived experience can give, is this: the universe keeps careful accounts. Every act of genuine kindness, every moment of grace extended in the direction of another person, every seed of good sown into the soil of the world—none of it is lost. It accumulates. It compounds. It returns.
My father’s death could have been the end of my story. Exile could have been the end. The miscarriage, the abandonment, the tent in the wilderness, the pandemic—any one of these chapters could have been the chapter where I stopped. But I have never believed that I was born for smallness. And life, in its peculiar and relentless mercy, has proven me right.
Today, I stand in the fullness of everything those years have made me: a mother, a thriver, a woman who has learned to trust the quiet voice within, to give generously from whatever she has, and to believe—with the knowing of someone who has tested herself against real fire—that good given freely always finds its way home.
I have walked through every one of those fires. I have emerged—not unscathed, but unbroken. And on the other side of all of it, I find myself, continuing to enjoy life even more abundantly, from the inside out.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
What do you do? What do you specialize in? What are you known for?
I am a Metaphysics Specialist, Certified Spiritual Guide, Teacher, Healer, and Kabbalist within the Lineage of King Salomon. With over 14 years of training through the Modern Mystery School INT, I specialize in guiding individuals along a structured path of spiritual progression rooted in Hermetic wisdom.
I am best known for leading the Empower Thyself program and Initiation, where I teach foundational Hermetic principles, tools for self-mastery, and support individuals in discovering and aligning with their North Star. I also work closely with students who feel called to advance further, preparing them for deeper levels of training within this lineage.
In addition, I serve as a Lifestyle Advisor within Luminous Wealth -integrating spiritual philosophy into practical, everyday life—supporting transformation across career, relationships, health, Home and personal growth.
What are you most proud of?
I am most proud of the transformations I witness in the people I work with. Supporting individuals as they break free from limiting beliefs, step into their greater purpose, and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives – It’s deeply fulfilling.
I take pride in offering a structured, time-tested spiritual path rooted in an authentic lineage. Led by compassion, accountability, and providing ancient tools to empower every person who applies them, regardless of their religion, beliefs, or societal positioning. It’s a path that meets someone where they’re at, and takes them to their next level. Ultimately guiding them to embody their highest potential.
What sets you apart from others?
While I come from the same material, we are all made of, I would say my unique contributions ar as follows:
1. My ability to bridge the Magickal, whimsical, joy filled realms of our consciousness, into the physical for people to experience firsthand within themselves and in their homes.
2. I open doorways into other dimensions for people to experience the higher aspects of themselves.
3. I’m able to sense, see, and read energy – create a plan for action that ultimately leads to success for people.
4. To see the magick and divinity within an individual and to help them, see it in themselves; to create life from the inner space of goodness aka Godliness.
5 As a gatekeeper to the Advanced Spiritual Path of Progression, I provide access to a rare and structured system for rapid spiritual development which translates into expedited personal growth.
6. My approach is holistic, addressing the mind, body, soul and Home as interconnected. This ensures that the shifts are sustainable.
7. My contribution is rooted in both spiritual depth and real-world integration, offering the mentorship and tools needed for lasting transformation.
How do you define success?
True success is holistic.
It is living in a state of abundance where I have exactly what I need, when I need it—whether that is meaningful connection, financial prosperity, vibrant health, mental clarity, emotional stability, supportive relationships, or a deep sense of purpose.
I define success as living in alignment with my highest purpose while supporting others in awakening to theirs. It is not measured solely by external achievements, but by the depth of transformation I experience within myself and facilitate in others.
To me, success is the harmony between all areas of life—where my inner world and outer reality are fully aligned. It is living with clarity, integrity, and sovereignty, guided by truth, spiritual connection, and conscious choice.
It means embodying the teachings I share, continuously evolving, and walking a path of self-mastery while helping others do the same. Success is witnessing my clients break free from limiting patterns, step into their power, and create meaningful, lasting change across all areas of their lives.
This is the foundation of my work through LuminousWealth.com I work with individuals who understand that true wealth extends far beyond finances—it is about cultivating a life rich in purpose, inner-fulfillment, and harmonization with the world around us.
Because real success isn’t something you chase—
it’s something you embody.