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- 0:00Erin Gray: You're listening to Generate a Life Well-Lived podcast.
- 0:02Erin Gray: I'm your friend and confidant, erin Gray.
- 0:04Erin Gray: On this podcast, we will explore all things money, business and self-development, including human design.
- 0:10Erin Gray: I hope you enjoy the journey, where I share everything that I know and am continuing to learn along the way, as I honor my heart's desires while inspiring and encouraging you to do the same.
- 0:20Erin Gray: Hi, how are you today?
- 0:23Erin Gray: So I just came back from Oahu and it was kind of an impromptu um trip, because the backstory is I've been asking myself if I wanted to go to Nicaragua to surf and there was a surf retreat in July and I kept getting a no.
- 0:43Erin Gray: And this is the, I should say, funny thing, but actually that's how intuition works.
- 0:48Erin Gray: Um, and I just kept getting a no.
- 0:51Erin Gray: As some of you know, I am a generator, and so that sacral response, asking myself yes or no questions and so I kept asking myself and I'm learning, you know, to connect even more deeply with it and I kept getting to know when I'd ask.
- 1:06Erin Gray: So I let it be and even though the mind wanted to be like, yeah, but you love to surf and you enjoy the ocean and you've been asking to go to the ocean, these are all the things that the mind says, and I'm sharing this with you because intuition doesn't make logical sense and for most, if not all, of my clients, that is one of the things that I help them come back home to right themselves, to trust themselves, because we've been so conditioned to listen to the mind.
- 1:36Erin Gray: So I got the no and I just let it be.
- 1:41Erin Gray: Well, my mom texted me probably two weeks before I left to Oahu and said hey.
- 1:44Erin Gray: Mom texted me probably two weeks before I left to Oahu and said hey, we have a room we're not going to use.
- 1:47Erin Gray: Do you want to go?
- 1:47Erin Gray: And you know, hindsight, 2020, it's like, of course, right.
- 1:51Erin Gray: Like you know, our intuition knows way more than what our logical minds can predict.
- 1:55Erin Gray: So I said you know, of course I'll come.
- 1:59Erin Gray: You know I have my own room.
- 2:00Erin Gray: It was a chance opportunity for me to be by myself, to travel by myself, which I love to travel by myself.
- 2:05Erin Gray: Obviously, I love to travel with my family and also I love time by myself.
- 2:10Erin Gray: I think travel is one of the ways that we get to increase or elevate our consciousness, because you know you're in a new city, you're not going on autopilot, you're having to, you know, figure out, where you're going to go out, where you're going to go, where you're going to eat.
- 2:26Erin Gray: You get to talk to new people.
- 2:27Erin Gray: There's just so many things with travel that I believe, if we allow it, we can really raise our awareness.
- 2:34Erin Gray: So before I dive into my ahas and insights that I gained from going to Oahu, I want to share just a couple of things with you.
- 2:44Erin Gray: I am going to be doing weekly workshops, or webinars, twice a week and in order to, if you're interested and you want to come, just get on my email list.
- 2:56Erin Gray: You can go to my website and I'll put that information in the show notes, but it's just wwwgeneratealifewelllivedcom and you can get on my email list and I will email you information about the webinars that I'm going to have on a weekly basis.
- 3:12Erin Gray: I've realized that there are some I should say some.
- 3:17Erin Gray: There are quite a few foundational topics that I have discussed with clients in private sessions, and one of the things that I had the idea of is I'm just going to create all of the things that either I wish I would have known or I wish my clients would have known when they came to me, so that we can I don't want to say expedite the process.
- 3:37Erin Gray: But if you have these foundational topics mastered for lack of a better word then when you dive into some more of the advanced things, it, you know, like it, it speeds up the process, right?
- 3:51Erin Gray: Um, not that there's anything wrong with going slow, or you know me, I'm.
- 3:57Erin Gray: I say, you know, like there's no rushing.
- 3:59Erin Gray: And also I've just realized over the years that there are things that if we could already have access to this, if we already know some of this information from a foundational level and we've embodied that, then doing the more advanced things and taking that to the next level is a little bit faster, a little bit easier, things of that sort.
- 4:22Erin Gray: So if that is something that's interesting to you, all you have to do is just go on my website, fill out your name and your email address and you'll be on the list so that you can get my information on a weekly basis of when I'm hosting these workshops.
- 4:39Erin Gray: So on today's podcast, I really want to talk about my ahas back from coming back from Oahu, the idea that I had around you know, we vote with our time and we vote with our money and I just want to share some of my insights that I had with you.
- 4:56Erin Gray: So I went for a week to Oahu.
- 4:59Erin Gray: I swam with sharks, which was amazing.
- 5:03Erin Gray: I'm going to put one ocean diving in the show notes, if you have that's on your list.
- 5:08Erin Gray: You know, swimming with the whales has been on my list, swimming with the sharks has also been on my list and I, it was incredible.
- 5:17Erin Gray: Ocean Ramsey is the woman, it is her company and she is a marine biologist, a conservationist no-transcript, I haven't always been, you know.
- 5:40Erin Gray: I think there's been a lot of.
- 5:41Erin Gray: You know movies, you know, take me outside my comfort zone and also learning about these amazing creatures.
- 6:06Erin Gray: I highly recommend one ocean diving.
- 6:08Erin Gray: She's on North shore, holly Eva, in Oahu, and it was incredible, you know.
- 6:14Erin Gray: My husband asked me.
- 6:15Erin Gray: He said, you know, were you scared?
- 6:17Erin Gray: And I said you know what the interesting thing is?
- 6:19Erin Gray: Is I really wasn't?
- 6:20Erin Gray: I said you know what the interesting thing is is I really wasn't.
- 6:24Erin Gray: Obviously, you know cautious and respectful, like, I think, the ocean.
- 6:26Erin Gray: I think you know animals.
- 6:28Erin Gray: We need to honor and respect them.
- 6:30Erin Gray: And also, how many of us have been conditioned to believe?
- 6:36Erin Gray: You know sharks, are these people eating?
- 6:40Erin Gray: You know creatures, and for me, the ocean is such a peaceful place it is.
- 6:46Erin Gray: I mean, there's so much intelligence in water.
- 6:51Erin Gray: You know, water holds such emotion and it's I didn't feel at all scared.
- 7:00Erin Gray: I didn't feel at all scared it was.
- 7:08Erin Gray: It was a place of stillness, of, of peace is probably the best word that I can um describe it as.
- 7:10Erin Gray: And the interesting thing I told my husband.
- 7:12Erin Gray: I said you know, of all the things that people are scared of, which this has been something that I've worked on right, but this has come from.
- 7:19Erin Gray: My conditioning is money.
- 7:21Erin Gray: You know not having enough money in my body.
- 7:25Erin Gray: There has been more fear around that than there has been, you know, with sharks or things that you would think like hey Aaron, you know what?
- 7:32Erin Gray: This?
- 7:33Erin Gray: This is actually something that you can die from, but it just shows you where our conditioning lies and what the body feels when we don't feel safe, when we feel fear and things of that sort.
- 7:47Erin Gray: In regards to you know, we vote with our money.
- 7:49Erin Gray: I want to bring into your awareness that and this and this was also something that I experienced in Thailand as well, like talking to locals, and especially Hawaiians, and when I was in Thailand, talking to you know, thai people, and how much of we have a say in how we use our money and how our money gets circulated, and realizing and recognizing that you know you get to ask questions and you get to choose how you want your money to circulate.
- 8:32Erin Gray: This comes from the idea of the soul of money by Lynn twist.
- 8:36Erin Gray: I'll put this information in the show notes as well.
- 8:38Erin Gray: This information in the show notes as well.
- 8:46Erin Gray: It's just an understanding and an awareness of when you travel.
- 8:47Erin Gray: You get to, you get to infuse your money into the local economies.
- 8:53Erin Gray: You get to circulate your money.
- 8:54Erin Gray: You get to allow that money Like I look at money as a circulation in love, right.
- 9:01Erin Gray: I get to infuse it into the locals, into, like, for example, you know, oahu of really circulating our money from a place of love and empowerment.
- 9:16Erin Gray: And you know asking questions, right.
- 9:20Erin Gray: Like you get to ask questions with the tour operators that you go on, you get to ask questions about.
- 9:28Erin Gray: You know I was talking to some of the people that worked at the resort and they were sharing with me certain ways that Marriott operates and if we don't ask these questions, we don't understand how they get paid, how they don't get paid, how they get bonus or how they don't get bonus, right, and I truly believe that we're all here to live our best life to, you know, share in the wealth to empower each other by empowering ourselves.
- 10:00Erin Gray: And so understanding like, where does my money go and how much of this money actually gets to go to the person that is on our trip, or you know?
- 10:11Erin Gray: So just really asking those questions and understanding.
- 10:15Erin Gray: And that doesn't happen when, when we are so isolated in resort areas.
- 10:24Erin Gray: Don't get me wrong, right, I love luxury, I love being pampered or having a nice place to stay and also, having lived in Maui, understanding that there is a difference of what I call like resort life and then also living there, right, you know, living there as a local, having rolling blackouts, having water restrictions, having just certain things, that as a traveler, if you're just there for a week and you're just at a resort, you may not know that that exists, right, because when you go to the resort, everything is manicured, there's no trash anywhere, um, you know, water is ever flowing and electricity, you know, is constantly there.
- 11:16Erin Gray: And so just just asking questions, understanding the difference of you know, and and choosing to use your money in ways that are going to help.
- 11:29Erin Gray: I call it the local economy, not necessarily always when I say big business, right, big corporations I'm not opposed to big corporations and also, if we're going to infuse our money in corporations, are these corporations taking care of their people?
- 11:45Erin Gray: You know, living on Maui, there was one recycle plant and obviously you're on an Island, right, and so asking, you know, I asked like, well, where does this on a Wahoo, like, where's your recycle plant?
- 11:59Erin Gray: Where you know there were tons of trash cans along the um resort, right, but there was just like one or two recycle bins and if we aren't aware of this, we may not even think about this, right, and this isn't coming.
- 12:15Erin Gray: You know, this isn't to to shame anyone or anything of that sort.
- 12:18Erin Gray: It's just having having lived there and having, you know, been to other countries, and just thinking about, like, being being mindful of the environment, being mindful of the local people that are there, choosing to use our funds in ways that help the local people.
- 12:39Erin Gray: I think is such an um pool.
- 12:43Erin Gray: And she had been to Maui multiple times and we were talking about how a lot of people, when they come, they go to Costco and they buy and and I mean I see on YouTube, you know people are like, oh, hawaii is so expensive, you know, go to Costco, yes, and also like how can we, how can we find farmers markets?
- 13:17Erin Gray: How can we, you know, talk to the people at the resort to find where the local places to you know um, go out to eat or to purchase?
- 13:30Erin Gray: You know fruits and vegetables from, and just to purchase fruits and vegetables from, and it's just something that is so simple that I haven't found yet that anywhere I've ever been that the locals haven't been more than ready and willing to share where their favorite places, where do they like to shop, where do they like to go do their excursions, things of that sort.
- 13:54Erin Gray: You know, when we took an outrigger and we talked to the captain and the person also that helps them, and he was Hawaiian and the the captain was local and we were just talking about the, about the history of Hawaii and how the United States has left out or doesn't necessarily focus on the way we have treated Hawaiians, and we were just talking about how preserving and allowing nature to be how it is right, like Waikiki started, obviously, you know where people would come through that port, and now you know it I call it like it looks like a concrete jungle, and the captain was saying, yeah, you know, they tried to start to do that over on the West side of Oahu and they realized, you know what?
- 14:54Erin Gray: Maybe that's not the best move, because from a from a care for the environment and the land, we've seen what that did to Waikiki, and so so I think, as travelers, we have a responsibility to be, to be mindful, to be aware of how our footprint impacts the, the places that we visit, and another good show that I recently watched is called the last tourist.
- 15:26Erin Gray: That's on Hulu and it just talks about, you know, being a.
- 15:31Erin Gray: When I say a responsible traveler, I think of that as being an aware, a conscious traveler.
- 15:36Erin Gray: Right?
- 15:36Erin Gray: Is the money that we are using?
- 15:40Erin Gray: Is that really going to the people that are showing us their beautiful land and these beautiful experiences, or is a large part of it going to the corporation and just understanding and asking those questions?
- 15:58Erin Gray: So I just want to encourage each of you that, as we travel, that that is another way that we can raise our awareness, that we get to ask our questions, that, as we, you know, circulate our money all throughout the world, that you know, people say you know money is energy and it's you know that that money, that energy, is circulating to all these different areas that we visit, that we spend our time at, and just asking yourself and slowing down and asking like, and understanding where is this money going and how is this money benefiting the people, the land, the environment that I'm about to experience?
- 16:42Erin Gray: You know, so often I hear that people say, oh, but what can I do to make a difference?
- 16:47Erin Gray: Or it's just me, it's like.
- 16:49Erin Gray: But if we all think it's just me, right, we can look at that from a disempowered place, like I'm just one person.
- 16:55Erin Gray: Or we can think of I am one person and my one myself.
- 16:59Erin Gray: You know my views matter, and then the person next to us believes that.
- 17:03Erin Gray: And so if each of us believe that we are all connected, that we have a voice, and that voice can come from our, the way that we use our money, the way that we use our time, we get to vote with that.
- 17:18Erin Gray: We get to say that you know what, I no longer accept that practice and I'm not going to use my money there.
- 17:24Erin Gray: Or we get to say I love what you're doing and I want more of that.
- 17:28Erin Gray: So I'll put all the information that I mentioned about one ocean, diving, swimming with the sharks and the soul of money book and the other two movies that I recently watched.
- 17:38Erin Gray: And if you are curious, want to learn more about the webinars, like I mentioned, just go to my website.
- 17:44Erin Gray: You can enter your name and your address, email address and you can be part of the community to come and attend the workshops and ask your questions.
- 17:55Erin Gray: And until next time,