Olam.i was created in a shared-room bunkbed with the curtain drawn back, as I watched someone opposite me repack their bag ready to leave.

Myself - Georgia, Mancunian, currently aged 25 - had recently graduated as a professional oil painter back in 2022, followed by training to become a yoga teacher ('cliché', do I hear?). Back then I was travelling, planning but not really planning something for my life, and wondering whether I actually felt like I was a 'teacher' to some, if any degree. I knew I was running on the fuel of inventing ideas for my future. I knew I had opened an avenue of eternal intrigue to the world of the subtle, the energetic, and the internal, and I knew this much to be true:

• I'm an artist.
• I'm extremely sociable.
• I love hosting spaces.
• I love introducing new people to each other.
• I am in awe of those who have devoted and delved into the world of healing, spirit, and energy, as someone who has only just started to truly 'see' this. 
• I grew up with psychic family and contact to the other side, so I know that something is out there is real.
• I have just yet come to know of and learn fragments of this knowledge as I stand mere and minute at the vast open door of the extensive, unfolding lineage of practice and ritual, between this realm and the ether.
• Each person is spirit, practices are lineal, and what is able to be shared should be done so through true celebration and without a desire to replicate what is not yours to obtain.
• Being self-employed is a bit like trying to see straight when you're looking upside down - it's a bloody challenge, a bit of a strain, and it really does shift your perspective.

So as I sat there in my bunk bed, I opened up my notes app and wrote this down:

* For those who are outside of the UK, Pure Gym is a chain of gyms across the country (p.s. unsure why I’ve written ‘like pure gym’ twice, but there we go.) *

And so as I came back home and entered the world of self-employment and part-time working, I suspended upside down, and have been ever since. In those years to follow, sifting through countless jobs and creative outlets, ranging from becoming a tattoo artist, making coffee, serving sushi for 10 hours a day, selling clothes to people who didn’t care what they bought or how much it was, and teaching occasional classes that I couldn't always feel present or deserving in, I was clueless. So, I saved my money, and I went to see the world. I saved and I left. I saved and I left. I saved and I left. I saved, I left, and one afternoon, I was trying to clear my phone storage and rediscovered this note, and it's safe to say that it has never left my side.

So as you read this and ponder, as I do to, who am I to make this, let me tell you why.

I am a person who cares and who creates. I am young and I am learning. I am a markmaker and a storyteller. And my story is now Olam.i.

And Olam.i? Olam.i is transparency, and kindness, and connection. Olam.i, plainly, is a booking platform at its core. It’s clear, and easy to use, and creative in its making. Olam.i is for practitioners to find clients, for clients to find practitioners, and to make the whole process as uncomplicated as possible. Olam.i is a safe space, a hub, and a future community. 

Olam.i intentionally has low practitioner costs, because it, nor I, am here to make profit off the backs of others. I know how that feels, and it’s pretty shit. However, Olam.i is a business, and it exists and operates to create something long-lasting that actually works, and can continue to work for everyone. This passion project will build community, and relationships, and to turn dreams into realities, so that outside of the platform, everyone can build and connect and create in their own tangible everydays. This is not a money driven business, nor am I, and I openly say this with chest. 

The future for Olam.i is hopeful, and that includes everyone that is here for the ride. We are all creators, myself included, and I hope that when reading this you can appreciate that as a one-man band, (as of now) nothing can be perfect straight away, but all we can do is try and learn.

I am so excited and grateful that you are here and wanting to partake in this vision. Please do stick around, and do so with patience and open-heartedness, because I believe it’s going to be a good one.

I send goodness and everything in between, 

Georgia :)