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Former Bayside boutique owner tries new career as life coach
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
A former Bayside clothing store owner
has returned to Bell Boulevard. But this
time, she’s ready to help people fi nd their
inner beauty and peace.
Back in December 2018, Margaret
Ioannou closed her 16-year-old company
Karma Boutique in favor of following her
“life purpose and mission” as an intuitive
life and business coach and energy healer.
Her new practice is located at 36-51 Bell
Blvd., less than a block away from Karma.
“I’m so happy to be back in this community.
Grand opening for Hanover Bank’s Flushing branch
Th e team at Hanover Bank celebrated
on April 11. Among the participants
representatives of the Flushing Business
the opening of its new branch at 138-35
included Michael Puorro, chairman/president/
Improvement District. Th e bank also took
39th Ave. in Flushing with a ribbon-cutting
CEO of Hanover Bank, along with
the opportunity to present a $1,000 donation
to La Jornada Food Pantry for their
work to help the hungry.
I had opportunities to go work at
other facilities, other places but it didn’t
feel right in my heart because Bayside
is my heart. All my clients are here and
my clients have become my best friends.
Honestly, I’m so grateful that I’m here,”
Ioannou said.
Following a “personal transformation”
last year, Ioannou decided to trade in a life
of selling clothes to become a life coach.
She said she did not expect to return to
Bell Boulevard so soon but felt like she had
“unfi nished business” in the area.
“I feel like I’ve been doing this all my life
because I had people sitting in my store for
hours and speaking to me and I couldn’t
understand why they were all attracted
to me and why they were sitting there
for hours,” Ioannou shared. “Everybody
always told me they felt so good, they felt
so light aft er they left me.”
“You don’t realize how, in 16 years, you’ve
touched so many people’s lives,” she added.
“You think you’re just doing your due diligence
of working, having a store and providing
a service to them. But it showed me
in the end that that store was much more
than just a shopping experience.”
For the three weeks since she’s been back
on Bell, Ioannou has off ered clients her life
and business coaching services in addition
to performing a form of Japanese energy
healing called Reiki. She took classes and
became an offi cial “Reiki master” in 2018.
“Reiki releases any stagnant energy
or blocks within the body. So I am pretty
much a conduit for the universal life force
energy and the energy goes through me
and it goes to my client but their own energy
heals within their body.”
She also helps people “shift their negative
mentality into a positive mentality”
with her life coaching practice. “I help
them to create the life that they love using
the universal laws of attraction,” Ioannou
said.
In her short time seeing clients, Ioannou
has received a wealth of positive feedback,
with clients reporting that they feel “light”
and “stress free” following sessions.
“Automatically they’re booking a second
session, a third session. I have people
buying packages to continue that feeling.
It’s really important to remember that you
have to commit to taking care of yourself,”
Ioannou said.
Ioannou shared that one of the biggest
positives of her new career is getting to
spend more time with her three daughters.
She would oft en have 70-hour weeks
when she owned Karma, which prevented
her from parental activities like going
on class trips.
“Th eir lives were upside down — coming
there, eating there, hanging out there.
Now, we have that free time together,”
Ioannou said. “We can cook together, we
can do homework together, we have the
weekends together. So I’ve created more
time for them.”
To learn more about Ioannou’s services,
visit euphorianyc.myshopify.com
or Instagram @loveandlight_810. Th ose
interested can also reach her by phone
at 718-496-8536 or by email at mioannou1016@
gmail.com.
Photo by Jenna Bagcal/QNS
Philip Okun, Board of Directors; Robert Golden, Board of Directors; Brian Pun, FSA & Associates;
Michael
The bank team with former Borough President Claire Shulman, state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky and
Victoria Schneps
Dian Yu, Flushing BID; Denise Chardavoyne, Hanover Bank, EVP,
Chief Retail & Information Offi cer; Tina Lee, Flushing BID.
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