While The Lady of Lightning started mostly as a jewelry business, creating hand-crafted, intentional, and healing pieces for the local community and abroad, her healing and intuitive work quickly escalated into a full-fledged global reach, using the power of social media and marketing to connect with clients all over the world. She moved from operating this business mostly in her home office, to working at some of the most well-known spiritual businesses and shops along the West Coast, spanning from Seattle to the Bay Area. In addition to 1 on 1 work with clients, she also taught workshops about spiritual subjects at locations such as The Vajra in Seattle, New Renaissance Bookshop, The Wild Unknown, Psychic Sister, and many more in Portland. During this time, Brooke also wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first book, Lightning Thoughts in 2017, which was sold mostly online, at in-person events, and small shops in the Pacific Northwest. This achievement was a powerful artistic milestone that allowed her to bring the healing powers of her in-person sessions and workshops into written form with insightful poetry and creative exercises to invite readers to slow down, relax, and process life. After releasing the book and celebrating with events in the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest, she opened up The Lightning Center in Portland, a healing studio that housed multiple healing practitioners between 2018-2019. While the healing center was eventually passed on to one of the practitioners who rented the space, this allowed Brooke the freedom and ability to move herself and her business to New York. The Lady of Lightning truly taught Brooke about the necessity of community connections, authentic storytelling, flexibility and courage in entrepreneurial pursuits, and provided a spiritual foundation to her personal and creative life. While she still sees clients digitally on a regular basis, she has mostly transitioned to focusing her spiritual knowledge and gifts on creative projects and consulting.

Coinciding with The Lady of Lightning, Brooke always had other gigs and jobs to keep her business going. Her strong background in marketing and interest in social media inspired her to start a business called Lightning Social Media in 2016. Sharing the skills and passion for storytelling with small businesses and individual artists in Portland and beyond, she helped craft branding plans and built websites, as she was continuing to learn and grow as a business owner. This led to her working for brands and larger organizations, granting her the technical abilities that she still shares with her clients today, such as video editing, copywriting / editing, and clear branding strategies. Between 2016-2023, she worked with brands such as The Wild Unknown, Familien PDX, Black & Brown in the Middle, PlayWrite Inc. and many other brands and individual artists.

While her entrepreneurial spirit was mostly put to use running The Lady of Lightning and Lightning Social Media, Brooke also applied these gifts and marketing abilities to her artistic and musical career when she transitioned from the Pacific Northwest to New York City in 2019. Diving head-first into the music scene after many years away from the stage, she re-entered a world that she left behind due to emotional reasons and the need for personal development and growth. In retrospect, this pause in her musical career between 2013 and 2018 provided a necessary respite and exploration of other creative pursuits, and helped her develop a new relationship with music and expression. Previous to this musical hiatus, Brooke independently released and wrote 6 albums under the name Brooke D. between 2008-2012, traveling between different genres, personas, and musical partnerships. Upon her return to music, she wrote, released, and recorded 2 additional albums, with one coinciding book Something in the Sky in 2021, and now album 9 and 10 on the way in 2024 under a new name, Brooke Leialoha.

Through the process of exile from her musical life, and then return, as well as countless conversations with artists and musicians over the years about the ebbs and flows of creative inspiration, and the coinciding challenges that come with a creative life, Brooke understands the importance of having supportive mentors and helpers along the way. She faced her own shadow: the doubts, the fears, and the obstructions that caused her to step away from music and the stage…to silence her gifts..and ultimately has become a clearer channel and better artist due to this deep reflection and grief. Because of her experiences, both in the light and in the shadows, in times of plenty and times of scarcity, and the frustrations that come as an artist and a business owner, she does not want any other artist to ever go through the pain and agony she has experienced. Returning to the indigenous way of sharing knowledge and support, Brooke’s consulting provides emotional awareness, spiritual wisdom, practical skills, and loving encouragement, with hopes to nurture a new generation of empowered artists.

Leialoha Studios is the culmination of all her creative pursuits and interests, a way to ensure that artists of the present and future don’t have to face their challenges, whether technological or emotional, alone. An even deeper mission of Leialoha Studios, is to protect and uplift the most sensitive and vulnerable artists among us, nurturing and encouraging them so they can enjoy the fruits of their labor while they are living. Having experienced many personal losses to close friends in the artist community, she hopes to be the one phone-call, the space of kindness that saves a lives and careers before it’s too late.

Through her 1 on 1 client work, and more extensive marketing and design services, she hopes to help artists build solid foundations for their creative endeavors, providing structure where there once was confusion and overwhelm, as well as emotional safety and confidence, where there was once shame and fear. Brooke Leialoha holds the deep belief that with the proper conditions, planning, timing, and mindset, that artists have the possibility to thrive and create a more loving and beautiful world. What is enduring and sustainable takes time, healing, and patience to build, and Brooke has learned through many years of exploration, that with strong support system, a village of team trustworthy members, anything is possible.

What we focus our energy on will grow. Allow Leialoha Studios to water the seeds of your aspirations and goals…and watch the garden of your dreams come to life.