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Exploring Human Design and Energetics with Adriana Keefe · The One Small Change Podcast

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Welcome to the One Small Change again. I am thrilled to embark on
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this journey of exploration and transformation with you. I'm your host,
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Yvonne McCoy, and I bring almost 30 years of entrepreneurial
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experience and a passion for discovering growth
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through the power of a seemingly small change. And I wanna
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thank you, as always, for taking time out of your busy schedule to join
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me. And this week, we're talking to Adriana
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Keefe. We just met recently, but you are going to
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be as excited as I am in what she does and what
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she brings. So she's got a small change that's going
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to be something that's gonna help you and help you in your
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business. Adrianna, thank you for coming.
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Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to have this conversation.
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So tell us about your small change and how it
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impacted your business. My small
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change, of course, it's gonna sound really big, but it
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started really small, was when someone introduced me to
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the world of human design. But what that really did, what
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that small change really was was it introduced me to a
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world of possibilities outside of the physical material
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plane. It introduced me to the world of energetics,
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spirituality. And when I was young, I
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was raised in a house that was Christian, went to
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church, but it never resonated with me. So as I was
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growing up, I felt like I didn't believe anything else was out there.
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And then when I was introduced to human design, it made me question
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everything that's out there because you were simply
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taking my birth information and putting it in a system,
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and it told me everything I felt like I knew about myself when I was
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younger. Before, I was told that I was too much or that I was too
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talkative or that I had to sit down and stop being the the star of
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the show. And so that made me wonder, if this is accurate,
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what does that mean on the grand grander scale?
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And so I started exploring energetics and what that
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means in spirituality and how everything is a
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cocreation together, how everything is energy, and it's just
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changed my life ever since. Well, let let me
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just let me just explore this a little bit because I
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think that a lot of us are brought up with the idea of
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religion being the same thing as
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spirituality. And what I guess I've learned is,
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one, they are not Yep. But they can definitely
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coexist. I don't I
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don't know if that is your point of view or not.
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I agree. Because back when I was younger, I would have thought
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eve well, even 5 years ago, I would have thought, oh, no. I'm not spiritual.
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But I found what it is that I connect
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with. And even though it's not set under one
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specific religion, I think they do go hand in hand,
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but they're also different. I think you can be spiritual and be
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religious. I think you can be religious without feeling spiritual. I think you can
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be spiritual without feeling religious. I think there's a lot of
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connections in there, but you can also have one without the other.
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Does that make sense? It does to me. And I I mean, for a long
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time, I did not think that I was very spiritual, and
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it's something that I I've
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been working on. And then I had a friend say, you know,
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being spiritual doesn't mean that you're woo woo. Do you know
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that you, you know, that you have to,
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you know, believe in in in things that are that seem very
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weird. I mean, I do believe that there is a
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greater force at work. I do
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believe that that there are you know, we
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can connect with people, and I do believe in the power of
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intentions that if you, you know, that you think about something, you
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can bring things to you because, you know and and I always
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say, you know, we collect evidence to support our beliefs.
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So, you know, the more I see that and and and for
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me, it kinda happens in business as well. It's
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like, if I put my intention out there to have good relationships
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with other people in business and let them know what I
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need, they in turn will let me, you know if they find something that I
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need, they will bring, you know, point me in that
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direction, if that makes any sense. So, you know, so you might say this
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is a referral or this is affiliate program or whatever. But, you
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know, it seems to me that the best ones come from the people that
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I've just said, you know, I'm looking for this.
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Mhmm. It is I like how you say the power of intention.
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That feels that feels real. I think in the world of
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energetics and in the world of spirituality, everyone now associates
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that with manifestation. And people are very wounded
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by the think positive to attract what you want because that's not
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always how it works. But I like how you phrase the power of
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intention because it truly is what our it's all
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seated in what our intentions are. And so if you
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just think positive, but your energy the intention
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behind your energy isn't quite there, it just doesn't
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it doesn't make sense. It doesn't cocreate, but the power of
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intention does. Well, I think the other thing is,
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I'm very much into knowing your purpose and knowing
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your why. And I don't know if I shared with you, you know,
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that I lost over a £150,
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and apparently not from that look. No.
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I was almost homebound. I weighed £440.
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And I knew how to lose weight because I had done it before. I I
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knew that all the rational reasons, you know, that I was gonna die
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that, you know, for my health and stuff like that. But that was that
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was not enough to make me do it or to
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succeed at it. And it wasn't until I found out I was gonna be
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a grandmother that I was like, I wanna be
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an active grandmother. I want to play with my grandkids. I
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wanna be here to see them grow and thrive and, you know, do
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whatever they're gonna do. And that was the thing
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that for me made me lose weight, you know,
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or helped me lose weight and keep it off. You
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know, and and, you know, I I what I say is, you know, you don't,
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you know, you need a lifestyle change, not just a diet, and all that kind
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of stuff. But the first thing is you need to know why you're
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doing it, and it can't be for somebody else. It has
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to be something that is really
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important to you. Mhmm. You know, core to your being.
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1000%. So tell me tell me more. Tell me
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tell me how this human design and, so
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so the things that I'm interested in, you know,
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is you mentioned that the things that that
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the way you were as a child, people tried to get you to stop
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doing that, and human design help you to see this is actually who
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you are. And that's what, you know, one of the things I do is help
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people get back into their unique, you know, their unique,
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power, the things that got educated out of them or, you know, the
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society said they couldn't do. That's exactly it. And that's
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why our mutual connection connected us because we're doing very
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similar work just in very different ways. Because human
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design, if you don't know what it is, it's think astrology
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on steroids. It is literally the energetic blueprint of who you were born
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to be before your family, your environment, your teachers
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conditioned you to be something else. And I'm not saying that that's
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your parents' fault or your teachers' fault or whoever, but that is
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just the generation of or multiple generations of,
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no. We have to look a certain way. We have to act a certain way.
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We have to put on this facade. And so here I was, this
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bubbly energetic child. I had so much energy. I still
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have. I was diagnosed with ADHD, you know, telling me something was wrong
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with me. And I was always wanting to be center stage. I was a
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dancer. I was a gymnast an equestrian, but my light was
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dimmed so much because I took up so much attention.
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So I went through 20 plus years of my life
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shut down. I would not be vulnerable. I pro
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would pride myself on the fact that I didn't feel emotions, that I was numb.
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I wouldn't open up to anyone. I wouldn't talk to anyone. But then what what
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I realized when I was pregnant with my second daughter is I had a
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a huge gaping hole in myself because I
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felt so deeply unfulfilled. I had everything
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from the outside that made it look like my life was so wonderful, and I
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was so deeply unsatisfied. And that made that's that's what
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ended up with me hiring a life coach who then introduced me to
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human design because I couldn't understand what was wrong with
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me. If I have everything, why am I so unhappy?
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And from the condition standpoint, it was that that was a me
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problem. Something was wrong with me. Mhmm. So I was in my head. I need
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to fix my head. I need to fix my brain. And what it ultimately ended
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up being was that I was just told that I was
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the wrong type of person as a child, and I lost my
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essence. I lost everything about me that made me me,
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which I think everyone can relate to in this day and age. So
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human design showed me, no. You are supposed to be front and
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center. You are supposed to be in front of big audiences and on stage.
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Guess what I do for work now? I literally am a speaker at conferences, and
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I speak in front of so many people. And everything about me
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when I was little was preparing me for what I now
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do for my career because I've done so much of what we call
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deconditioning work, peeling back the layers of what society
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made me think I was supposed to be and coming back home to myself.
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But I do it through the lens of a straw sorry, human design and
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astrology, but you can do it in many different ways. Well, it
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I I think it's interesting because, you know, I think,
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we are beginning to realize that
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I don't know how to say this. That that the way we were
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educated before, we ignored the human
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part of it, if that makes any sense. Mhmm. You know, I have been
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in, I have just been in 2 programs,
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and one had to do with eating because I'm revisiting, you know, the way that
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I'm eating because I'm trying to get my diabetes under control.
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And one of the things that she did was she took us
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back to our childhood. Right? When what
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was the first thing that you remember in your childhood?
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And it was really amazing because as I went to and she brought
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us forward, As I went through that, I realized
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that I never had control of my food. I
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never got to pick and choose really. I mean, in my family, my mother, you
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know, she cooked what she cooked, you ate what she said, You
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know? And, I mean, it wasn't the kind of thing, like, on your birthday, you
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got a special meal that you could pick anything you wanted or anything like that.
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And then, you know, fast forward, when I was
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married, my husband did most of the cooking. He's a wonderful cook, and I'm
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really happy about it. But he decides, like,
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4 o'clock in the afternoon, this is what we're having. We you know what I
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mean? You can say, okay. Let's have this tonight. And if he decides
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he wants to have something different, he has something different. Do you know? And
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and, you know, not to get me wrong. I mean, if I if I push
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hard enough and say, can we have this this week, sometime this week? It'll
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happen, but I it just made me realize how little
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control I had or exerted,
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right, over what I was
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eating. I mean, just going back like that was, like, really amazing. And
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you take that back, use that same kind of idea, and to
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money. I mean, how many of us have heard, you
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know, rich people are awful or, you know Mhmm. For
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some reason we have shame about money, you know. Yep.
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I I remember as a graduate, you know, when I graduated, I was making more
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money than my father who was wonderful at what he did, and I really didn't
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know what I was doing. And it it was, like, it was embarrassing. Do
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you know what? It was, you know, I, you know, I couldn't say it. So,
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I think that maybe as a society, we're getting somewhat
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smarter, but I I don't know
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that a lot of us are really open to that. I mean,
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I guess what I'm looking for is if I talk to if you're
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talking to somebody who's stuck and thinks that this is,
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like, way out there, what kind of things do
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you say to open them up to the idea that there's more?
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I love this question. And this it's so interesting that you're asking me this
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specifically because I went to school for science. I went to
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college for a veterinary, and that's what I worked in for years.
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And like I said, the the those religious spiritual realm,
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even though I channeled spirit as a kid, I never believed in it as I
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grew up. And what I've found through just
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naturally sharing this and starting a podcast about human design and
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building my community, what I found is that people say they come to me because
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I meet them in the science and the spirituality. K. I
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share about the science of the neutrino stream, which is the imprint of
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energy that comes from the sun and the planets that comes into our skin
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and our body when we're born. I share about the science
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between the 64 gates in the human design or the I Ching
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and the 64 genetic codon. Like, the research they're showing that they were
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they're showing the same characteristics. I like to meet people where they're
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at. That's why if you were to see me walking down the street, I don't
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typically look like a very, quote, woo woo spiritual
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person, but I deeply am. But
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I think because I have that that nice mix of both, people
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really resonate with that, and they ask me for more of the science. And I
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love I love researching that, so I love to share it.
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That's interesting. And and I guess the other part is,
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I think if we have kids, we don't wanna
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repeat the mistakes. And so how does
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you being more enlightened impact your your
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kids? Beautiful question.
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I will start by saying I am not a perfect mother. I do have
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3 kids, 3 young kids, and it is challenging. They're
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10, 5, and 3, and they test me. And, also, I
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see every single day an opportunity to do things differently.
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The way that I was raised was there was physical
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abuse. There was emotional abuse. There were other abuses that I will
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refrain from talking about. And I really have the opportunity
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to catch myself in the brief pause before I react.
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And it's gotten a lot easier as I've grown into
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parenting, but I will say the I have
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this picture of my daughter who is 5. She
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was using emotional freedom technique, which is tapping. This is like
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tapping on the acupressure points of the body. And this is what I use with
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her. She's a very highly sensitive she's a Cancer in astrology. Just
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everything about her is sensitive. And she was
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potentially on the spectrum. We don't really know. I think she's just very sensitive.
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So I taught her an abundance of tools. And my older
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daughter was very sick. And she was
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crying, and she had a bad headache. And my I have a picture of my
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5 year old going in and tapping with her. And it was one of those
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see, I'm gonna cry. Just thinking about it. It's one of those moments where I
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just recognize how much here we go. How
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much differently I am doing it than my parents where they are allowed to
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have their emotions. And they're also given tools to help the emotion
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move through their body so they don't end up with disease and disorders like I
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have for years of my life. So it's really taught me so
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much in how to be a parent
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or or any anyone of an older generation to the new generation coming
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in and how we can just do things better, what not to do, I
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guess. Well, you know, the thing that that I realized is
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my my kids are grown adults. And so I have, you
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know, kids, I have grandkids, I have 1 great grand. And it's
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interesting because what I find is
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as I change and learn new things, I try to share
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that with my kids. And so it's interesting to
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you know, the first the first reaction is, oh my god. I can't believe I'm
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doing what my parents did or, you know, what my mother did. That's
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like, you know? Mhmm. And and then, you know,
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probably the the two things that helped me when I was parenting
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was I read an article that
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said, the things that drive you crazy with your kids
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when they're young are the things that are probably gonna make them
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highly successful when they become adults. Yep. And
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it's so true. I mean, my youngest daughter is so I mean,
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as a child, she was, like, so persistent, and as an
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adult, she's so persistent. And I've watched her, you
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know, get a grant to help her buy a house to, you know, get,
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you know, her son into good schools and, you know, that kind of stuff.
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And so that was a really good I mean, that was kind of, like,
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the savings grace that I didn't try to, you know, grind them
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down to the, you know, not not that I didn't do some grinding
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because it was convenient. Yeah. You
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know? The other thing was
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that someone said be consistent. As a
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parent, be consistent. Don't be a surprise to your kid because
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you're trying to be something else. So, you know, if
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there's something that that if you you wanna be a certain
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way way, you should do that. So for instance, they were saying,
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you know, don't say to your kids, what do you want for dinner if
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they really only have 2 you know, you're only willing to cook 2 1 of
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2 things. Yeah. And that was, like, so helpful to
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me. I mean, especially when, you know, my plate was full and
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I was going to graduate school and I was working and they were young and
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I would come home and say, you know, you know, we have this for
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dinner or, you know, this and they would say, well, can we have oatmeal? And
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I'm like, yes. I can do oatmeal.
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Yep. So okay. Before we run out of time,
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tell me, like, three things that entrepreneurs
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can do, that would help them be open to the kind
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that, you know, that they can either start using right now that's gonna help them
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or be more open to what you do. Entrepreneurs,
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especially, the way that energetics and
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your any sense of spirituality or cocreation with energies bigger
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than you, the way that that's at play can help you so much.
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So it doesn't matter if you're interested in human design, astrology,
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numerology, whatever feels like it's piquing your interest right now.
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Just start by going and downloading your chart or figuring out your life path
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number if it's numerology, whatever that is, and just start taking in information
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that's making you feel curious without putting pressure on it. Just start with
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what feels interesting. 2nd, I would
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say start to question or explore and reflect on
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the things in your life where your body has told you
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the answer and you didn't listen. And what I mean by that is,
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like, your gut. You had a bad gut feeling about someone, and then the
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your body ended up telling you you were correct or the
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way that you were right about something. Maybe your gut was like, get off the
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highway here, and you didn't know why, but you chose
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to, and you avoided an accident. Reflect on those moments
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where you've had this deeper knowing that was in your body that you couldn't
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explain, And start building that trust muscle with your body
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having knowledge that's greater than what we can logically think
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of. 3rd, I would say start surrounding
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yourself with more like minded people who are also
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ready for growth and evolution. I live by that Jim
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Jim Rohn quote. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most
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time with. You will, on a personal and spiritual development
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journey and as an entrepreneur, outgrow relationships. It is a 1000% going to happen, and
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it will get very lonely. It is a 1000% going to happen,
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and it will get very lonely, especially on the online world, if you don't surround
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yourself with other people who are also ready to grow. So those would be my
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3 things. I gotta tell you,
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the first two are great, but the third is
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is so powerful. You know, someone talked
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about the law of proximity. Mhmm. And when you
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are with people who are,
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you know, that that are at a higher place or, you know, ahead
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of you and stuff, it is so rewarding for
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you. But I think it also is a chance for them to give
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back as well, And so they feel
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they feel, empowered as well, and it
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is so it will help your business grow so
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much faster because you are growing so much faster. And they
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will introduce you to people, And, again, I think that that's where
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intention comes in. You know, not that it's like, I'm gonna
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look for people that can help me. The intention is I wanna
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look for people who share the same values I do that are
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interested in the same kind helping people the way that I
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do. And I just, you know, I have found that to be,
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incredibly valuable this last 2 years or so.
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So, you know, So absolutely. So tell us about your freebie
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before we, run out of time. Absolutely.
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If anyone's interested in human design and they wanna understand that, you can
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download your chart right on my website for free, adriannakeefe.com,
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and I have a whole free workshop on there you can watch. I have an
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entire guide you can download. It will link you to podcast
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episodes to learn more about your design. So that's a great place
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to start if you're interested. That's fantastic. That
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is so that's an action step that you can take right
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away just to see just if your if your curiosity
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has peaked at all. I I would highly recommend that you
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do that. Thank you. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt
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you. No. That was a I mean I mean, that was great. I have a
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retreat coming up, but that's not free. But if you feel like you need a
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full immersion, then that's an option too. That's available. That was the other thing.
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I was gonna say I did I was gonna ask about the retreat, and this
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is the first one you're doing. Is that right? It is my first. It's my
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partner not my partner's first, though. So if you're
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listening to this later, go I'm sure you can check on your website.
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Yes. And if this is not the one you can come to, the next one
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will be there, and so you should definitely take a look at
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this.
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So the last question I have for you is when
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was the last time you did something new for the first time?
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Well, aside from this retreat, because this has been a big expansion. I've had to
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grow a lot in hosting this retreat, yesterday, and it
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actually has to do with the 5 people quote. I
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live in a small town in Massachusetts, and I'm very
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much the rainbow sheep. I don't fit in here. And I
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was finding that I was very lonely on in the local physical
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world. So I found some people who were also
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in spirituality, health, and wellness of some sort, and I asked if
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they wanted to put together a little group mastermind where we meet up often and
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we connect. And so the 4 of us met yesterday, and
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it was an energetic exchange that just, like, created my
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entire week is gonna be, like, phenomenal because of it. And now I have this
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new group of women with all different expertise, all different
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levels of business that I get to lean on locally, which I think is
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gonna be a game changer for all of us. Fantastic. That is
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really I mean, that is really walking the walk.
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You know? I mean, it's like we talked about proximity
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surrounding yourself with people. I I hope this turns
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out to be a really great move for you. Thank you. Bye. Believe
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it or not, we are running out of time. And so
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I gotta give you the commercial, which is make sure that you,
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subscribe, that you share this, that you engage in the podcast on
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social media. I wanna make sure that, you know,
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I did this to supercharge your business through connection.
25:18
And it's my way of giving back to this community and fueling your quest
25:22
for growth and impact because I think we all need, some
25:26
extra booster shots or something that can energize us on a regular
25:30
basis. So I hope that you will join me on the one small change
25:33
and that we can embark on this journey together where even the smallest
25:37
shifts can yield monumental transformations.
25:41
And sometimes they're not what you expect, but
25:45
they're what you need. So if you listen to our first episode, you know,
25:48
if you haven't done that, and then you can dive into the other ones
25:52
that will help you to have a bold vision and, you
25:56
know, have some innovative possibilities. So, Adriana, do you
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have any last words you have a quote you wanna leave people with? Something that
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you say all the time? Well, I already quoted it.
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I'll let it do it again. If if it's good enough once, it's good enough
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twice. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most
26:14
time with, so pick those people wisely. And that can be
26:18
painful sometimes, but it is crucial. It is crucial.
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So that's fantastic. And I think the thing that you said that people,
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forget is that a sign of growth is that
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you're shedding some of the people or the clients that you're with, and nobody
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tells you that. No. That you can actually outgrow
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your friends and your clients. Yeah. And I think that's
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important to know. So we have to call it quits, but I want
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you to remember that change can be simple, but it's not always
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easy. It requires courage, resilience, and a willingness to step
26:53
outside your comfort zone. So I hope you will join me again for
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the one small change and look for those
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possibilities. Until the next time, I wanna make sure that
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you stay curious and look into other new things.
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So, Adrianna, thank you so much for spending this time and giving us
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the free gift and your insights in how we
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can evolve as as humans on this earth and do good.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate being here. Till next
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time, everybody. Bye.