Jan. 1, 2026

Your "Second Brain" Can't Lie To You - with Anna Quigley

Your "Second Brain" Can't Lie To You - with Anna Quigley

Anna Quigley is basically the "Intuitive Yoda" for women in midlife looking to figure out their next chapter. Anna has spent over 40 years steeped in metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, and spiritual studies....not just reading about it, but truly living it. Just two years ago, she did the brave thing: she walked away from a job she loved that had turned toxic and fully committed to the work she knows she's meant to do. She’s here to help women clarify their purpose and bring it ...

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Anna Quigley is basically the "Intuitive Yoda" for women in midlife looking to figure out their next chapter.

Anna has spent over 40 years steeped in metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, and spiritual studies....not just reading about it, but truly living it.

Just two years ago, she did the brave thing: she walked away from a job she loved that had turned toxic and fully committed to the work she knows she's meant to do. She’s here to help women clarify their purpose and bring it into fruition.

Anna and I dive deep into how we can reprogram our thoughts and why our gut feelings are scientifically referred to as the "second brain." We talk about the power of visualization (and sensory imagination!) - it’s not just for Olympic athletes anymore, but a key tool for creating our reality.

Anna shares her incredible, personal journey of listening to the "universal whisper" before it brought out the "club" (you'll know what I mean when you listen!).

She explains why those gifts that come easily to us - the ones we tend to dismiss - are often the exact things we're here to share with the world.

If you've been feeling that little internal nudge that there’s something more waiting for you, or if you need a little help listening to your intuition, this episode is a beautiful guide.

Anna even has a great tool - an intuition tracking sheet - that she’s sharing with our listeners!

You can find out more about Anna and connect with her here:

  • Website: IntuitionGift.com


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Remember, midlife isn’t the end - it’s just the beginning of a new, exciting chapter! Keep thriving, keep shining, and I’ll see you next time!

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Hello, and welcome to today's episode of Thrive after 45.

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I'm Denise Drink Walter heart whisperer, midlife mirror and mentor.

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Every week I am honored to share energy and space with inspiring guests whose stories reflect so many possibilities of thriving beyond 45.

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Together we'll uncover the whispers of the heart, the power of midlife transformation, and the wisdom that fuels expansion.

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What if the next chapter of your life could be shaped by the power of your own intuition?

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Today's guest, Anna Quigley, has spent over 40 years immersed in metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology.

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And spiritual studies, not just learning them, but living them.

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She has taught meditation and visualization trained in the corporate world for decades, and now coaches, women and cancer patients to visualize wellness and step into their next stage with intention.

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Two years ago, she walked away from a job that she loved that had become toxic and committed fully to the work.

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She knows the work that she's here to do.

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In the six months since launching her business, she has already impacted dozens of lives.

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Anna is a speaker and a transformation cat.

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Transformational Catalyst, igniting inspiration while her clients do the inner work and someone once dubbed her the Intuitive Yoda, a title she now proudly carries at her core.

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Anna helps women clarify their purpose for the next part of their lives and bring it fully into fruition.

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Anna.

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What a privilege and a pleasure to have you on our show today.

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Thank you for being here.

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Oh, thank you, Denise.

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I'm so delighted to be talking with you.

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I feel so connected with you.

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So great.

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So I would love to begin with a, with a.

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Audience and myself understanding.

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I hear these terms a lot.

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I, I have to admit, I don't fully understand metaphysics, quantum physics.

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I understand psychology and spiritual work, you know, however that comes to be.

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But I'm curious if you can give us just some idea around, what do you mean when you say metaphysics?

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Quantum physics,

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I.

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Oh, let's start with a simple question, right?

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Yeah,

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yeah.

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You, I

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dig graded.

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I dig.

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Graded.

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Goodness, boy.

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Okay, put me on the hotspot here.

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Well, metaphysics literally means beyond the physical.

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Beyond physical.

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Um, and yeah, which, which makes, which makes total sense.

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Quantum physics.

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And, and I am not a scientist, although I play one in my own head because I love science.

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I'm a little bit of a science.

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Gee, I love the love that, the why behind and, uh, but everything's energy.

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Everything, every cell in our body, every organ in our body communicates with every other one, and they do it energetically, which is extraordinary when you think about it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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Particularly when you start thinking about listening to the divine guidance, the inner guidance, uh, intuition.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which is the more common name we all know about the gut feeling, you know, that's the most common, the gut feeling, right?

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Well, the gut and intestinal areas actually scientifically been called the, referred to as the second brain.

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Okay.

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It's,

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it's that significant in, um, working with, you know, moving energy and bringing these insights and awareness.

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So why is it, you know, you get that queasy feeling mm-hmm.

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You know, you know, you're, that you're picking up energy and it's, I, I don't know why that seems to be the, I think it's just the most obvious Sure.

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Um, of ways to recognize that.

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So, uh, it's.

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Where everything is, everything is energy and everything talks to everything else, and everything starts with a thought, right?

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That's how to create things.

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It, you know, everything's created twice.

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Uh, I've heard and use that before.

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First with the thought.

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Now we don't have to think to breathe.

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We have that automatically down, but it's so fast.

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I wanna raise my hand.

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I wanna grab the mouse that starts with a, here's what I wanna do.

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My hand then moves to the mouse.

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It's so instantaneous.

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Yeah.

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But the power of that, and that's, that's kind what I love is that we can use those very.

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Energy centered if you'll to reprogram or re-engineer our thoughts.

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It works both ways.

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So by changing, ah, changing our language, changing the words, the way we think about things.

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We can literally reprogram our brain.

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Our mind does not know the difference between what we imagine, if you will.

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Right.

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And reality it has, it doesn't know.

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It's like, oh, okay, you, you know, you're living on a beach in Hawaii.

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Okay?

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Oh, okay.

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You visualize that.

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Not you.

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You get a feeling of it.

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You feel the salt air, you know, against your skin and the sound of the waves lapping against the shore.

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You bring in every sense.

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Mm-hmm.

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And create that where.

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I can feel it.

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Just even talking about that, when you get that full body experience, your brain's going, oh, okay.

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That's what you want.

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Let's, okay, we're, we're, we're moving to that.

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As opposed to, oh God, I hate where I'm living.

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I don't like where I'm living.

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I just, you know, it's the focus on.

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Where you wanna be, where you want to go, as if, as if it's already there.

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That's the power and the ability starts with that to be able to reprogram, reprogram.

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I love what you're saying, and specifically around we have that capacity to make those changes within ourselves.

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And of course, the whole foundational piece of our show Thrive after 45 is giving our listeners.

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The power back to them, which was never given, uh, never taken away, even though it feels like it has been.

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Yeah.

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But we are moving that needle.

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So you are doing anything and everything for you by you because of you.

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And when you do it through that lens, everything can change.

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And so as you're sharing, um, visualizing, which I love back in university.

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A few years ago, I, I recall our sports, um, center at the university just beginning to understand the power of visualization in sports.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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And boy, I just got, I just got shivers.

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Did that ever change, quote unquote, the game,

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every game.

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I, I, yeah.

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Olympic athletes, that's a major part of their training.

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I have a friend in Europe.

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That's what she does.

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She works with ballet dancers and football players and soccer players and works with them on that visual.

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That visual, right.

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They, they visualize themselves winning the race.

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They visualize that as already done.

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I even as a kid, my dad was a big fan of Dale Carnegie.

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Right?

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Okay.

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Power positive thinking that was a really early, you know, forerunner of this kind of metaphysical.

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Um,

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right

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and understanding, and I grew up learning to play golf.

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It's like visualize the, the ball going in the hole before you hit it.

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My, you know, and I can still find parking spaces better than anybody because my dad learned that.

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And early on I, I had that where it's like, no.

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Okay.

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And it, and it always made it easier.

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It's, it's, it seemed crazy at the time.

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It's like, oh, this is, you know,

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right.

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How do we do this?

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But there again, there's science behind it.

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Right.

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Do you, do you find Anna, that with your clients.

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You go big or you start small.

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'cause I, I, I question this all the time.

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If I go too big, I shut it down before I even start, because that, that's never gonna Thank you human, right?

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Thank you.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Then yeah, when I go small.

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Yellow butterfly of course, that day that I said, you know, and I didn't focus on it and perseverate so that I was grabbing for it, like make it happen.

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I said it.

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Then I just let the day go by, and then the evening I did one more thing to anchor that in.

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And in the morning I woke up and I thanked for all the butterflies that came through.

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And of course, I was seeing not live butterflies because that's what my body originally thought.

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We're moving into winter here.

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I'm not gonna see live butterflies.

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And of course, what did I see butterflies on, right?

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Butterflies.

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Three or four different kinds.

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And I was like, okay.

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Ah.

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So do you start small?

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Do you go big?

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How do you and why?

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I, I, I'm gonna comment on something that of course, that just happened, and then I will answer your question.

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Sure.

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You were talking about stressing, I, you, I could feel that through Zoom.

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Seriously.

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It, I know.

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It's like tinking, a hose, nothing can move.

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And the, and then you immediately shifted into that.

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And then I just kind of let her let it, it's a little bit of surrendering, which I struggled with for a long time.

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It's like, no, I'm Type A.

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I can't let go.

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Yeah.

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But that's where the power is because you're opening up for this energy to, to move, right?

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Sure.

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No, starting small, but mostly starting small.

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It there's, it depends on the person and what their background and how much experience they have.

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Perfect.

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But there's.

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There's inner work, there's awareness that we have.

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I, I think them as breadcrumbs.

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Even throughout my life, there have been moments where this passions I have for.

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Purpose Yes.

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Has been popping up and popping up and a career and doing this and doing that, and oh, I should, this is more practical.

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All of those things have kind of kept it at bay a bit.

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Right.

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And as, as I've gotten older, as I've gotten to, you know, midlife and beyond, um, there.

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Noise has gotten that noise, if you will.

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That urge has gotten stronger.

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Mm.

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And it's gotten clearer.

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So we'll start usually small.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, I, I like the analogy of, you know, when we've had a a, a gold chain get knotted, you know, you put it together.

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Yes.

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It's, you just start very gently with the outer level and you loosen that.

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And when you loosen that, then the next thread opens up.

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And it's that kind of a process of exploring where are they?

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Mm-hmm.

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What's been the experience, what's the situation?

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'cause we're all different.

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Is it, you know, empty nesters or

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Right.

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America has shifted or, yeah.

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I've done that career.

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It's fine.

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It was great.

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It's successful.

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My life is good, but

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yeah.

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Right.

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Um, and it's looking at those little pieces, so I, I tend to start with that.

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Mm-hmm.

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But with the intention.

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Big.

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Big is possible.

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Big is big, is there.

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Big is what's been whispering to us throughout our life and.

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You know, I don't know about you, but most, I think of us in college, it's Oh, that's not practical.

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You, I wanna be a philosophy major.

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Mm.

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Yeah.

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What are you gonna do with that?

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Right.

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I have a lot of artist friends who ended up in different directions because you can't make a living as an artist.

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And so the ones I've talked to are doing extremely well now.

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Mm-hmm.

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Living their passion, but it came midlife.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because we've gone through the education and you know, the first half of life is.

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It's like, it's practice.

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It really is, right?

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It's like, let's become an adult.

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Let's get educated, we'll figure out relationships and you know, we're, do we get a a career and let's get that going?

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And we got that under our belt.

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We get comfortable with that.

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And then we've noticed that.

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There's something else.

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Yeah, there's, there's more waiting for me.

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I can feel it.

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Yes.

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And how exciting is that?

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Right?

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Really.

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That is so exciting.

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And there there's so many examples of people famous, obviously famous people who didn't find.

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This purpose becomes successful until forties, fifties, sixties, seventies.

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Of course, I were, you know, growing up with what, who, grandma Moses was always the, she wasn't famous until she was 70 something.

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And

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yeah.

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You know, there's, there's so many, so many more.

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But we open up, I think we've, and it's.

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It's not starting again.

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I, I've talked to

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Yes.

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That are a little bit of a afraid.

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It's like, oh my gosh, I'm actually even a family member wanted to change careers at like 35, 40.

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Yeah.

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And she goes, oh, it's too late.

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And I'm like, it's not, you go for three or four more years to school.

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And you've still got 30 years of practice.

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Hey, what you love?

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Yeah.

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But she wasn't ready to, to do that.

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She, there was a block and Yeah.

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You know, at that point, uh, and we all have to make our own choices and decisions and

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Right.

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Take action or not.

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It's, it's, right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, I think it's really, really important the conversation we're having right now in terms of stages.

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And what people get to go through their life experiences to points in their lives.

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And there are different, I was, I was recording an episode with, um, somebody yesterday, Tatiana, who was talking about teenagers.

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And there are certain things as young children that the brain isn't fully developed in order to be able to do some styles of problem solving.

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And it's just not possible.

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And, and this is coming back through in today's conversation, there are certain things that we get to live through that give us.

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The wisdom that isn't possible prior, and it's not because you're not capable, it's timing.

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It's.

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Experience.

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It's not, it's, no, it's not bad.

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It's reality, I believe, anyway.

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Yeah,

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I agree.

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And we get to a point where we start assessing and evaluating things differently.

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Yes.

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What's really important is the big career with the title.

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Is that really important or is that.

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I get chills even thinking about it.

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That self fulfillment, that doing that thing that just brings you passion or joy every time you do it.

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You know, they say if you're doing what you love, you, you'll never work a day.

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But what you are finding that if that's not already there.

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But you build on it, you can.

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You're not, again, not starting again, you're basing on all this extraordinary wisdom that we've gained and we have so much experience and so many revised and modified Fine tuned.

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Yes,

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yes.

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Perspective.

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And we go, yeah, that, that's doesn't have the value.

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Yeah.

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In my life that it did when I was 20.

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When I was 20, it was important to do this, and that's great.

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That's, that's the life cycle.

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We have different purposes at different times in our life.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, I just actually just talked to a, a guy that's like 31 and he says, I'm going through my quarter life crisis, and I said, I did that one too, you know?

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Mm-hmm.

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It was like, okay, so these stages of our life come.

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Opportunities.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yes.

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It's, it's a gift and it's like, now's the time you've built these.

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I know for my self, I needed to gain some confidence

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mm-hmm.

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And doing these other things and my ability in the fact that yes, I'm, I'm good at this, I'm good at that, or this is a gift and.

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As, and I will say as women, I don't mean to generalize, but I, I know this to be personally true and for most of my, the women that I know,

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right.

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We tend not to value the things that come easily to us.

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Right, right.

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You

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know, my, your, your friend will tell you, oh, Denise, you're so good at that.

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Oh, well, yeah, that's fine.

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That's just something I do.

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That's just me, you know, this like, thank you.

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Nice compliment, but dismissing it.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we have it backwards because those are the things that we really need to be paying attention to, not the things we've strived for.

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Like you're, when you had your energy and I worked really hard for that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, that's great.

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You've learned through that, but that's not where the inspiration comes.

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That's not where the creativity comes, and that's not the gift.

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Those, those innate abilities, those things that just you do so well,

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right?

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That maybe most of your friends don't and they admire you.

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How do you do that?

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That's your g that's one of the gifts that you're here to share.

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And we start becoming aware, I think in, in, in midlife, we start like, wait a minute.

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That's part of the reassessing.

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Right?

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And, and I like how you're sharing that.

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That's something that we get to do.

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We get to it's

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right.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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And some.

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We have this conversation and we have this show.

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One of the biggest goals that I have for this show is to show everyone that we have choices all the way along, and no matter where you've come from and what your life trajectory has been to this point, there are always nuggets of golden information when we take those reflect.

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Times when we actually dig into where have I been?

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How did I get through that?

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What are my strengths?

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What are my skills, and how can I capitalize on those?

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And to not have guilt, remorse, shame.

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Anything negative about giving back to ourselves, because when we have an empty cup, we think we're filling everybody else's, but it's not even close to what could happen if we start to give back to ourselves.

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And I dare say no.

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I'm very proud to say we should be first on our own list.

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But we weren't raised that way for the most part.

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Oh abs, it was the opposite.

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So we're really relearning, not just for ourselves, but for the generation to come.

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And I think that's one of the key things that we can.

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Offer to the next two or three generations behind us, or you know, younger than us, that Yes, do this, listen to that calling, listen to that joy, that passion.

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That's what you're here for.

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Yeah.

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And don't be, you know, don't feel shy or embarrassed that, oh, I'm take, I'm doing something I love.

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I should be taking care of everybody else.

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It's like, that's how you take care of everybody else.

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Exactly

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by doing who you are.

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Better than you can, you know better than you can do it.

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Yeah.

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I mean, as, as well as you can, can be who you are and giving what you have to give.

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So,

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and when you marry all of you.

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Incredible knowledge and experience, um, that you share with your information about, you know, metaphysics, quantum physics, your psychology work, the spiritual work.

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You package that all together and package I'm using in quotations for those who aren't seeing the video part.

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Um, you put that together in such a way that they, that your clients get to see themselves for.

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Their genuine for their authenticity, for their self-love and compassion, and there's nothing better than that kind of role.

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So, wow.

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Thank you for saying goodbye to the corporate that wasn't serving your needs.

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Yeah,

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and,

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and I, yeah, it was, it was a hard decision, but, oh.

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It was because, yeah, for the most part, I loved what I was doing and I miss the people still that I was working with.

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Mm-hmm.

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But it was critical.

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It, it, it.

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You know, you know, they say it's like the universal whisper and then it gets louder, and then it shouts, and then it brings out the club.

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Um, and or the bat, you know, I've heard, and it's like, are you paying attention?

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I've had a few examples of that, um, different opportunities, and I'm, I'm, I, the bat was I could see them picking up the bat, you know, and getting, yeah.

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I'm like, okay, I'm, I'm, I, it is time.

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And I, I made a, a radical shift.

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A radical shift in, in doing that and rented my house out and took six months and went traveling and went three months in Europe and a couple months around, you know, the us Something I'd always wanted to do.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I needed to like separate from that.

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Toxic from that negative energy.

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Yeah.

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And find myself again.

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Mm-hmm.

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That was, that was the, the gift and the catalyst.

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It's like, I had, and, and just day to day, you don't need to take, you know, a year off.

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Yeah.

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Run to India or do anything like that.

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Sure.

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Which I've done, but just getting out in nature or finding quiet time during the day to let that.

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Whisper be heard.

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Mm-hmm.

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Before the bat, you know, comes out.

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Yeah,

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yeah, yeah.

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Because we can't avoid that.

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We can't.

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Right.

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And these conversations will help people see that others have done this, others have.

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Made it to the bat stage.

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And they're saying, had I been able to actually pick up on some other things, I wouldn't have had to go to that depth that I did in order to come out.

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Um, and so that's why we have these types of conversations to bring things to light, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, and that's one of the key things that I'm.

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Passionate about doing.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's sharing some tools and tips and tricks and all the little things that I've learned, the little things in my, in my spiritual, emotional, personal toolbox, if you will.

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Sure.

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That have helped me, you know, smooth those bumpy rides out or recognize them before they become major issues, and we're always, we're always free to take action or not.

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Right.

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But learning to recognize and get familiar with that, those impulses, those physical sensations, those signs that come literally through signs or Right.

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A little voice.

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The little whisper or the gut feeling through, through the senses because

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mm-hmm.

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Actually, uh, can I, I'll throw a little bit of Yeah.

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Science too.

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'cause this, I, this I really found fascinating when I was doing research.

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We are.

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We experience 11 million bits of information every second, E every second.

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So, you know, you think about it, did the air and the sounds, every sound, the hum of the light bulb by me and whatnot, everything.

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They come through our senses.

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99%, only 1% is picked up by the brain.

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Whoa.

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That I, that was my reaction.

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Did I read that right?

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Come on.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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But think about it.

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It makes so much sense when you start looking at how intuition, our inner divine guidance speaks to us.

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It speaks to us through the gut reaction.

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It's that little quiet whisper.

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It's like, turn left.

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Turn left.

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What, why, you know?

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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You, you often don't know why.

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Right.

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But it's being, you're being guided to a better situation or safety or what, you know, I have so many examples of that too, from myself and clients, but, uh, so it makes sense that those auditory signals or people, you, you know, if I hear somebody talk about a book.

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Right.

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Three in a row in a very short period.

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I go, but I go get the book.

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Of course, you know, there's something in there for me or

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mm-hmm.

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You know, or you're seeing a sign you know about, well, where to go on vacation.

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You keep seeing the same thing.

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You go, okay, okay.

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I guess I'm gonna Hawaii, not the mountain.

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Hmm.

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So many ways, but coming through all of these senses that kind of directing us, you know, it's even walking out the door.

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It's like, oh yeah, you forgot such and such.

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Well, that's not your rational mind.

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That's your intuition.

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That's your, that's that guidance going.

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Don't forget.

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Yeah.

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Taking the check to the bank, it'd be good if you had the check in your hand,

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right?

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Little things.

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Yeah.

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That's not planned.

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That's not strategized.

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That's,

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yeah.

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So many ways.

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So many ways that it can help, but I, yeah, I just, it makes, I love the logic that that's why we, the more we learn to recognize and listen to these signals that come through our senses.

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Um, the ease, the easier and the smoother our path can be.

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Do you find, um, that some people have more auditory, some people have more?

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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Sure.

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And, and it can come in every way.

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Some days, you know, maybe every, every sense is involved or other times, right?

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You know, you're stronger there.

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Depends on what's going on in your life.

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You know, we have chaos around us all the time, right?

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Oh, yes, yes.

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Sometimes that's hard to hear the little voice.

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Uh, but the, but it's easier to feel that gut feeling, you know?

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Why am I going, I'm starting to walk out the door and you go, mm.

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And then you realize you've left.

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The one thing that you needed to take with you.

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Okay.

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Right.

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Paying attention to those, recognizing those is such a strong first start.

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Perfect.

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Um,

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if, if you're not already familiar with, with, you know, the little voice or recognizing it like, I know your voice.

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Right.

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Right.

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And go, yeah, it's Denise.

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I don't have to say who is this?

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Yeah,

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right.

00:28:06.497 --> 00:28:07.156
Exactly.

00:28:07.186 --> 00:28:07.396
Yeah.

00:28:08.057 --> 00:28:09.346
There's a familiarity.

00:28:09.892 --> 00:28:10.761
Absolutely.

00:28:10.791 --> 00:28:11.362
Yeah,

00:28:11.362 --> 00:28:12.652
yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:12.981 --> 00:28:15.231
Connection, which has always been there.

00:28:16.041 --> 00:28:16.731
Always.

00:28:18.596 --> 00:28:20.481
And we, and we all have it.

00:28:20.751 --> 00:28:21.142
Yes.

00:28:21.142 --> 00:28:21.682
Thank you.

00:28:22.251 --> 00:28:23.332
We all have it.

00:28:23.362 --> 00:28:26.362
Um, you know, I had someone in a workshop I just did.

00:28:26.602 --> 00:28:28.791
She goes, I, I, I can't visualize.

00:28:28.791 --> 00:28:29.811
I can't visualize.

00:28:29.872 --> 00:28:36.537
And so I don't really like using the word visualization because it's limits to one sense sensory imagination.

00:28:37.926 --> 00:28:48.561
I prefer that term because it is every sense, again, like reprogramming the brain, using every sense you wanna buy a new house or a new car.

00:28:48.741 --> 00:28:48.832
Mm-hmm.

00:28:48.832 --> 00:28:49.281
Okay.

00:28:49.551 --> 00:28:55.192
You know, how does it feel yourself in the car driving it, driving down the road?

00:28:55.192 --> 00:29:01.011
What's the smell of the interior and the, all of those, the more senses you can get involved.

00:29:01.432 --> 00:29:01.612
Right?

00:29:01.642 --> 00:29:03.862
In every choice, in every decision.

00:29:04.011 --> 00:29:06.711
Um, again, you're kind of moving yourself to clarity.

00:29:07.731 --> 00:29:08.422
Nice.

00:29:08.422 --> 00:29:17.451
And then, you know, and looking back through your life for the little breadcrumbs.

00:29:17.541 --> 00:29:17.961
Yeah.

00:29:18.201 --> 00:29:23.211
What are those moments in your life that just illuminated you?

00:29:23.602 --> 00:29:25.102
Yes, yes.

00:29:25.106 --> 00:29:25.277
Mm-hmm.

00:29:25.936 --> 00:29:28.731
Let you up physically, emotionally?

00:29:28.971 --> 00:29:29.241
Yeah.

00:29:30.021 --> 00:29:32.001
Goosebumps, or just sit, just you.

00:29:33.021 --> 00:29:37.912
You know, emotional almost to the point of tears sometimes.

00:29:37.912 --> 00:29:38.001
Of

00:29:38.001 --> 00:29:38.692
course.

00:29:38.692 --> 00:29:39.082
When you really Yeah.

00:29:39.082 --> 00:29:40.521
Feeling that passion.

00:29:40.852 --> 00:29:41.751
Yeah, for sure.

00:29:41.842 --> 00:29:42.471
For sure.

00:29:43.342 --> 00:29:44.932
Something in that isn't there?

00:29:46.487 --> 00:29:46.707
Yes.

00:29:49.372 --> 00:29:49.761
Everything

00:29:49.761 --> 00:29:49.912
in that,

00:29:50.362 --> 00:29:51.981
honestly, everything is in

00:29:51.981 --> 00:29:52.041
that.

00:29:52.041 --> 00:29:53.902
Of course, of course.

00:29:53.932 --> 00:29:54.501
Yeah.

00:29:54.981 --> 00:29:57.051
Um, you mentioned, uh.

00:29:57.997 --> 00:30:04.176
In probably the middle that when we were talking about, when I was asking about small mm-hmm.

00:30:04.237 --> 00:30:06.576
Um, or large big picture.

00:30:06.576 --> 00:30:15.307
And you said, um, depending on the person and other things, but starting small and then setting the intention for the big mm-hmm.

00:30:16.267 --> 00:30:17.826
I'm gonna circle back to that.

00:30:17.826 --> 00:30:22.086
What do you mean by an intention in terms of how do you do that?

00:30:25.122 --> 00:30:29.646
Uh, well, part, part of it starts with assessing what brings joy.

00:30:30.307 --> 00:30:30.396
Mm-hmm.

00:30:30.642 --> 00:30:33.126
What are your, what are those things as we talked about?

00:30:33.126 --> 00:30:33.217
Right.

00:30:33.217 --> 00:30:35.076
What are the things you just innately.

00:30:36.727 --> 00:30:36.936
Yeah.

00:30:37.386 --> 00:30:50.646
Uh, at one point I, and I read this, Cheryl Richardson had this in a book that I read years and years ago, and she goes, if you're not clear, ask your friends and your family, the people know you.

00:30:51.047 --> 00:30:52.277
Really well.

00:30:52.547 --> 00:30:52.636
Mm-hmm.

00:30:52.876 --> 00:30:56.537
Ask two questions and I still do this and I still have my clients do this.

00:30:56.957 --> 00:30:59.567
What do you, as friends and family, what do you think?

00:30:59.626 --> 00:31:02.686
I love, absolutely love.

00:31:03.106 --> 00:31:07.547
And the second one was really telling, what do you think I'm good at?

00:31:07.846 --> 00:31:08.237
Mm-hmm.

00:31:08.866 --> 00:31:09.801
What do you think I'm good at?

00:31:11.271 --> 00:31:14.271
It's, it can be surprising, you know, for me, the, what do you think?

00:31:14.271 --> 00:31:15.051
I love everybody.

00:31:15.051 --> 00:31:15.922
Travel, travel, travel.

00:31:15.922 --> 00:31:16.791
That was number one.

00:31:16.821 --> 00:31:22.221
Every, you know, which is true, but there were surprises with the, what do you think I'm good at?

00:31:22.551 --> 00:31:25.521
That's when I started realizing I was dismissing things.

00:31:25.521 --> 00:31:31.307
That just came naturally to me because I did, I'm like, um, I, at one point I started it.

00:31:32.061 --> 00:31:35.031
Literally at like 48, 49.

00:31:35.031 --> 00:31:35.152
Mm-hmm.

00:31:35.991 --> 00:31:37.342
Need your life implosion.

00:31:37.821 --> 00:31:42.096
Moved to another state, started an import business, which I'd never done before.

00:31:43.116 --> 00:31:46.957
And was figuring out what the heck is this next step?

00:31:47.076 --> 00:31:47.166
Mm-hmm.

00:31:47.166 --> 00:31:53.886
I know there's something, you know, here, this is the perfect opportunity to begin again and ask these questions.

00:31:53.886 --> 00:32:03.711
And one of the responses, several of the responses, oh, you're so good at accessorizing your, your home and your, you know, scarves and jewelry, blah, blah, blah.

00:32:03.787 --> 00:32:05.497
And I'm like, and just that attitude.

00:32:05.916 --> 00:32:06.096
Yeah.

00:32:06.096 --> 00:32:06.517
Thank you.

00:32:06.517 --> 00:32:06.997
Thank you.

00:32:06.997 --> 00:32:07.567
That's very nice.

00:32:07.567 --> 00:32:07.656
E yeah.

00:32:08.346 --> 00:32:11.582
Gives me something I can actually use, you know?

00:32:12.396 --> 00:32:13.836
I was so disappointed.

00:32:13.836 --> 00:32:16.146
It's like, come on, give him something real.

00:32:16.596 --> 00:32:18.932
Um, but what was it?

00:32:18.936 --> 00:32:21.636
It hit me like, in a good way, the club over the head.

00:32:22.027 --> 00:32:25.866
When I was on my first buying trip, I went to Indy.

00:32:26.001 --> 00:32:35.981
Had I had been there, it's another part of the story, but, uh, every shop, every street vendor, every stall that had, mm-hmm.

00:32:36.906 --> 00:32:41.497
Accessories that had handbags and jewelry and scarves and small furniture.

00:32:41.856 --> 00:32:48.426
I made a beeline to oh oh there, and it was like this major, ah, you know, aha moment.

00:32:48.426 --> 00:32:50.376
I'm like, that's how that fits in.

00:32:50.886 --> 00:32:51.007
Mm-hmm.

00:32:51.037 --> 00:32:51.946
This love that I have.

00:32:52.392 --> 00:32:57.701
For accessorizing this gift that I have that I didn't value very much, you know?

00:32:57.731 --> 00:32:58.061
Thank you.

00:32:58.061 --> 00:32:58.571
It's nice.

00:32:58.571 --> 00:33:02.382
I appreciate you think I look good, but, um, that's how I used it.

00:33:02.382 --> 00:33:06.192
So that was what I started importing because I had a passion for that and

00:33:06.582 --> 00:33:07.092
mm-hmm.

00:33:08.321 --> 00:33:09.642
It fits together now.

00:33:09.642 --> 00:33:09.852
I see.

00:33:09.852 --> 00:33:10.301
Yeah.

00:33:10.602 --> 00:33:13.277
So it was so easy for me to dismiss that is.

00:33:14.182 --> 00:33:14.842
You know.

00:33:14.842 --> 00:33:19.461
No, tell me something tangible, something, something's really substantive, but that was it.

00:33:19.521 --> 00:33:20.362
It was there.

00:33:20.511 --> 00:33:20.721
Yeah.

00:33:21.471 --> 00:33:21.842
It was there.

00:33:21.842 --> 00:33:22.791
It was always there.

00:33:22.852 --> 00:33:23.241
And I, yes.

00:33:23.781 --> 00:33:25.192
Wasn't valuing it.

00:33:25.192 --> 00:33:26.031
Mm-hmm.

00:33:26.038 --> 00:33:27.922
Because it came easily, it came

00:33:28.432 --> 00:33:28.791
Right,

00:33:28.791 --> 00:33:28.882
right.

00:33:29.152 --> 00:33:29.392
Separately,

00:33:29.721 --> 00:33:30.201
right.

00:33:30.382 --> 00:33:30.442
Yeah.

00:33:30.442 --> 00:33:33.531
You're looking outside for the big answer.

00:33:34.461 --> 00:33:34.701
Yeah.

00:33:34.701 --> 00:33:36.622
It's Dorothy in the red shoes, you know?

00:33:36.622 --> 00:33:36.922
Right.

00:33:37.672 --> 00:33:40.491
You've, it's, you've always had it, you know, click on your heels.

00:33:40.491 --> 00:33:41.902
It's, you've always had it.

00:33:42.261 --> 00:33:46.791
Love that, getting it in and whether we, you know, see it.

00:33:46.791 --> 00:33:50.991
So it's it, you know, you start looking back at those moments.

00:33:51.291 --> 00:33:51.412
Mm-hmm.

00:33:51.652 --> 00:33:54.082
It sort of starts to illuminate the bigger picture.

00:33:54.412 --> 00:33:56.811
Then it's like, okay, now how do we work with that?

00:33:56.842 --> 00:33:59.507
What do we do with Yes, that's not gonna manifest.

00:34:00.217 --> 00:34:04.866
And that's where we start doing the reverse engineering with sensory imagination.

00:34:04.866 --> 00:34:14.797
And, you know, working with some of the, the tools of, okay, how can this practically either become a business or how can you create, how can you give back to the community?

00:34:14.802 --> 00:34:14.842
Mm

00:34:14.847 --> 00:34:14.976
mm-hmm.

00:34:15.786 --> 00:34:21.666
You know, is it in whatever method that is, it could be a thousand different ways that could happen.

00:34:21.666 --> 00:34:24.217
But then you find, start working on the tangible.

00:34:24.786 --> 00:34:25.237
Right.

00:34:25.237 --> 00:34:28.626
How does this, you know, how does this, how do we bring this to fruition?

00:34:29.092 --> 00:34:29.442
Right.

00:34:29.797 --> 00:34:30.427
Right.

00:34:30.726 --> 00:34:37.867
Um, so this, I I, I love everything we're talking about.

00:34:37.867 --> 00:34:42.007
I'm just, I'm getting little tingles all the time as we're talking.

00:34:43.592 --> 00:34:47.677
I could, I could stay on here for days, literally.

00:34:50.016 --> 00:34:50.347
Um.

00:34:50.931 --> 00:34:55.041
Why is it that you are doing what you're doing now?

00:34:57.802 --> 00:35:00.112
Because I have to literally

00:35:00.472 --> 00:35:01.521
Oh, I love that.

00:35:01.581 --> 00:35:02.452
Yes.

00:35:02.452 --> 00:35:07.431
I, I, I have to, oh, see, now I start, I'm seriously almost ready to cry.

00:35:07.436 --> 00:35:07.507
I.

00:35:07.746 --> 00:35:07.867
That's

00:35:08.556 --> 00:35:09.007
okay.

00:35:09.007 --> 00:35:10.567
You can cry on my show.

00:35:10.597 --> 00:35:10.777
We

00:35:10.777 --> 00:35:11.407
do this.

00:35:13.177 --> 00:35:13.567
Tears of

00:35:13.567 --> 00:35:14.467
joy.

00:35:15.547 --> 00:35:21.936
It's, and it's, I get this, this welling up in me because this has been.

00:35:22.521 --> 00:35:23.811
These have been breadcrumbs.

00:35:23.811 --> 00:35:33.231
I remember literally like at 30, crying to my mom going, I know there's something I'm supposed to be doing, but I don't know what it is.

00:35:33.802 --> 00:35:37.101
And you know, it's like, it's just, it's there.

00:35:37.101 --> 00:35:39.202
I can feel it, but I don't know what it is.

00:35:39.202 --> 00:35:40.882
And it's just kind of been.

00:35:41.527 --> 00:35:44.322
Coming and there was such an angst and I, yes.

00:35:44.322 --> 00:35:48.097
And I was a muck when I was younger at making decisions.

00:35:48.097 --> 00:35:49.086
I was so fearful.

00:35:49.086 --> 00:35:51.067
What if I make a wrong decision?

00:35:51.067 --> 00:35:51.217
You know?

00:35:51.726 --> 00:35:55.836
It took time and that's where those, that first half of my life, right.

00:35:55.836 --> 00:35:59.347
Was so valuable because I learned that no, you can just change your mind.

00:35:59.376 --> 00:36:03.217
You could just go, just turn this way, you don't have to go back.

00:36:03.487 --> 00:36:03.577
Mm-hmm.

00:36:03.762 --> 00:36:06.217
You just turn a different direction.

00:36:06.217 --> 00:36:06.277
Yeah.

00:36:06.277 --> 00:36:06.612
You just stop.

00:36:07.447 --> 00:36:11.047
What's not working, you let go of what's not serving you.

00:36:11.317 --> 00:36:11.677
Mm-hmm.

00:36:11.916 --> 00:36:16.146
Like a job and you, and you move to the, you move to the next.

00:36:16.146 --> 00:36:20.106
And this has just permeated my life to do this.

00:36:20.106 --> 00:36:27.786
And when I took that, I mean, I had started interviewing people about how they found their purpose several years while I was doing my.

00:36:28.836 --> 00:36:29.286
Career.

00:36:29.286 --> 00:36:29.407
Right.

00:36:29.407 --> 00:36:30.936
My professional career.

00:36:31.237 --> 00:36:31.597
Right.

00:36:31.717 --> 00:36:33.487
We just didn't have enough time for it.

00:36:33.487 --> 00:36:45.547
So that was the, the gift that I gave myself was that year to really stop and, and think, and it could be a walk around the neighborhood, it could be five minutes before you go into feed the kids.

00:36:45.786 --> 00:36:47.137
Doesn't have to be that.

00:36:47.166 --> 00:36:48.157
Yes.

00:36:48.487 --> 00:36:50.077
Stealing those moments.

00:36:50.166 --> 00:36:50.317
Mm-hmm.

00:36:50.617 --> 00:36:53.916
Um, but that gave me, it's like, if, if not now, when.

00:36:54.016 --> 00:36:54.077
Yeah.

00:36:54.226 --> 00:36:55.487
You know, mom, what are you going to do?

00:36:55.876 --> 00:36:58.126
This is, this has been showing up.

00:36:58.126 --> 00:36:59.206
This is what you're doing.

00:36:59.206 --> 00:36:59.266
Yeah.

00:36:59.597 --> 00:37:01.726
So now I'm figuring out how to do it.

00:37:01.891 --> 00:37:02.181
Yeah.

00:37:02.181 --> 00:37:06.047
And yeah, it's like I didn't step into this going, oh, I know.

00:37:06.047 --> 00:37:06.646
Exactly.

00:37:07.726 --> 00:37:08.206
You know?

00:37:08.211 --> 00:37:08.302
Yeah.

00:37:08.442 --> 00:37:08.956
No, yeah.

00:37:09.197 --> 00:37:12.737
I didn't know the import business either, but I learned it and I figured it out.

00:37:12.766 --> 00:37:15.106
And as long as I keep.

00:37:15.532 --> 00:37:19.672
I'm learning while I'm, while I'm sharing, I'm learning while I'm speaking.

00:37:19.942 --> 00:37:26.722
Of course, while I'm, I am igniting, you know, the flame in, in, in other people.

00:37:26.722 --> 00:37:34.612
So of course it continues for me, but that's this feeling that I had, that surge is how I know I'm spot on.

00:37:34.791 --> 00:37:34.942
Mm-hmm.

00:37:35.181 --> 00:37:37.492
Would I have doubts about.

00:37:38.032 --> 00:37:41.692
How am I gonna make this work and how am I do it because my business is still new.

00:37:42.141 --> 00:37:43.672
Um, I get that feeling.

00:37:43.672 --> 00:37:48.081
It's like, no, just stop questioning, you know, better, you know, this is, it's gonna work out.

00:37:48.081 --> 00:37:48.141
Yeah.

00:37:48.291 --> 00:37:50.601
It's what you're supposed, what you're supposed to be doing.

00:37:50.601 --> 00:37:51.711
Whatever that looks like.

00:37:51.742 --> 00:37:53.001
However, that's showing up.

00:37:53.032 --> 00:37:56.481
And every day something, oh, it's, oh, oh, that'd be fun.

00:37:56.481 --> 00:37:57.141
I can do that.

00:37:57.141 --> 00:37:57.802
Let's go that.

00:37:58.132 --> 00:37:59.242
So it's, it's morphing.

00:37:59.242 --> 00:38:02.931
It's constantly morphing, but as of course, as long as I sharing and giving, and.

00:38:03.907 --> 00:38:07.717
On my, on my path, I, I only get to see about three feet in front of me.

00:38:07.896 --> 00:38:07.987
Mm-hmm.

00:38:08.226 --> 00:38:09.666
For the most part in my life.

00:38:09.666 --> 00:38:11.586
You know, get clarity for that far.

00:38:12.427 --> 00:38:15.246
I step in faith and mm-hmm.

00:38:15.516 --> 00:38:18.186
Walk those three feet and then the next three feet.

00:38:19.567 --> 00:38:19.867
Yeah.

00:38:20.766 --> 00:38:23.646
It unfolds as you are available for it.

00:38:23.646 --> 00:38:31.746
And of course your path has changed so much from corporate to where you are now that you're.

00:38:32.286 --> 00:38:41.257
I would suggest, I'm guessing that you are way more open for all of this to be received, which is a journey in itself.

00:38:41.677 --> 00:38:56.527
Yeah, and I, I absolutely love, I am all about, for those people who listen to my show from the beginning or halfway, you know, this is my jam in terms of, I have a deep belief that.

00:38:57.501 --> 00:39:04.101
I will never stop learning until my last breath because that's who I am.

00:39:04.101 --> 00:39:05.152
That's what I'm about.

00:39:05.152 --> 00:39:13.702
I'm all about learning, and it doesn't have to be, I used to think it had to be the book as I have a master's in educational leadership, right?

00:39:13.702 --> 00:39:16.416
I always thought that was learning, but boy, if I over.

00:39:16.806 --> 00:39:21.817
Have I ever opened up to all that is available?

00:39:21.817 --> 00:39:24.757
And I know I have so much more ahead of me.

00:39:24.757 --> 00:39:28.746
And what a joy to be able to access.

00:39:29.166 --> 00:39:34.867
Um, these conversations I learned in every conversation I got to have.

00:39:35.617 --> 00:39:37.237
And today was no exception.

00:39:37.237 --> 00:39:42.547
It was just as rich as I imagined and more so I must have put intention into.

00:39:43.806 --> 00:39:44.226
There you go.

00:39:44.226 --> 00:39:45.786
We create our own reality.

00:39:45.797 --> 00:39:46.277
Right.

00:39:46.336 --> 00:39:46.726
Right.

00:39:46.726 --> 00:39:46.907
We do.

00:39:47.536 --> 00:39:48.586
We do our intent.

00:39:48.586 --> 00:39:50.867
We set and we talked about that early on.

00:39:50.867 --> 00:39:53.206
We set our intention for this and

00:39:53.206 --> 00:39:53.896
Exactly.

00:39:54.032 --> 00:39:54.322
Yeah.

00:39:54.827 --> 00:39:54.947
Yeah,

00:39:54.947 --> 00:39:55.786
exactly.

00:39:56.507 --> 00:40:04.306
Anna, is there anything you would love to share before we close off today's episode?

00:40:04.306 --> 00:40:09.706
Something of an extra nugget, a pearl, uh, question.

00:40:09.737 --> 00:40:11.387
Whatever comes up for you.

00:40:11.871 --> 00:40:14.152
What would you like to share with our audience?

00:40:14.152 --> 00:40:14.242
Well,

00:40:14.391 --> 00:40:15.202
two things.

00:40:15.262 --> 00:40:17.751
Uh, yes, it is never too late.

00:40:17.751 --> 00:40:27.202
Just please, please, please remember that it is never too late, no matter where you are, what your circumstances are, your situation.

00:40:27.202 --> 00:40:31.672
It is never, ever too late to change, to, to shift.

00:40:32.362 --> 00:40:40.371
And my absolute favorite quote, um, is the journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step.

00:40:41.391 --> 00:40:45.472
It's all you have to take or three feet, however you want to think about it, whatever, sure.

00:40:46.132 --> 00:40:51.442
But it's that one tiny thing and it's, it's uh, it's inertia.

00:40:51.771 --> 00:40:59.422
You start that energy moving and the more you move toward it, the universe rushes up behind you to go, okay, here we go.

00:41:00.202 --> 00:41:06.047
And things pop up and synchronicities happen, and opportunities come up that you could not have.

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Thought of.

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So it's, it's, it requires an act of faith.

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Mm-hmm.

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Quite often.

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Mm-hmm.

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But

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again, getting familiar with that and comfortable with and recognizing those signals and how they speak to you, you build confidence.

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So, uh, I, I have a, um, intuition, little recap and a tracking sheet.

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I, again, kind of the scientist

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Sure.

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Mentality.

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We might have one of those insights and two days later you go, what was that?

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What happened with that?

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So, you know, I have a little tracking sheet that I'd love to, to give to anyone listening or, you know, download that, use that, or just find a special jar.

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And when these things happen, write down.

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Mm-hmm.

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What happened?

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Yeah.

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When did it come through an auditory queue or a right.

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How did it come?

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And you start seeing that jar fill up of all of these moments of how you're being guided in your life.

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Love that.

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Noting.

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But I, but I have a tracking sheet to kind of get them started.

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Mm-hmm.

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With that.

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Perfect.

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I'd love, I'd love to share.

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So,

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perfect.

00:42:16.581 --> 00:42:23.152
Well, maybe, we'll, um, if you're okay with it, we'd love to put something like that even in the show notes, um, if that's doable.

00:42:23.657 --> 00:42:24.556
Absolutely.

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Intuition gift.com they can go to.

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Perfect.

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Awesome.

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Directly.

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Yeah,

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we, we will.

00:42:31.577 --> 00:42:32.117
Excellent.

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We'll have that in the show notes for you to click on and grab and go.

00:42:36.737 --> 00:42:43.786
We always have in the show notes any way that Anna wants you to be able to access her and find her.

00:42:44.266 --> 00:42:47.297
All of those are always in our show notes and we'll add that.

00:42:47.476 --> 00:42:47.847
Uh, okay.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Tracking sheet.

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Love it.

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I love it.

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Um, an honor and a privilege to share time, energy, and space with you today.

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I have learned.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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It's just I'm so elevated now.

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I feel like I could do anything the rest of the day and.

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And you can.

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And I can.

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I

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love it.

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Oh, I love it.

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I do too.

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