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From Podcast to Parish: Eye Opener Society Announces Its Next Chapter · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello everyone, welcome back to Eye Opener Society. I appreciate everybody joining
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  us here and just providing yourself to this whole new project.
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  Eye Opener Society has been with you and we appreciate everyone who has stuck
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  around with us and we appreciate everybody new that is also joining us.
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  And now with our big announcement that we're going to be forming into a church.
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  Things, you know, are going to take time to do
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  it Because Lizzie and I were super excited And
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  we keep getting super excited And then we
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  start getting ahead of ourselves And also we learn
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  to pump the brakes at times This way we
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  get one thing done at a time But we are focused on this
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  mission And it's something we are super excited to bring forward to everyone
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  So with that we're going to give you guys a little piece of what's been on our
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  minds Because eventually you're going to start hearing us doing Whether they
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  be sermons, whether they be speeches,
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  We're going to put forward things that will help you.
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  But in order to help you, you have to be the one who is actually desiring the change.
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  So let's welcome our wonderful and beautiful co-creator Lizzie. Lizzie, how are you?
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  Good. Just so excited to be enjoying the day and here recording another episode.
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  Absolutely. And we're so excited to have you here. And I know you and I have
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  talked about this because we do.
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  We have so many plans. We're so excited about everything and we are going to be,
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  in the forefront of helping people more than we have, you know,
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  we're going to be given lessons and we're going to be, you're going to be writing stuff.
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  And I've seen some of the stuff you have written and it's absolutely amazing
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  stuff, but people have to understand though, it's really up to them.
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  It comes from them inside of here to be willing to want to make a change. Is that correct?
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  Absolutely. Um, you can really only meet another person as much as you've met yourself.
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  And when you're exploring your inner truth, you can find a lot of things in
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  people and symbols all throughout, but you have to be willing to shift yourself.
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  And that takes practice for a lot of people.
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  Um I think culturally we just
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  kind of by the time we're like
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  young adults we're very determined on
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  who we are right we're strong smart independent people nobody
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  can tell us what to do and I think a
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  lot of us kind of like go really hard into that for a
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  little while before we start kind of undoing all
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  of that and the first stages of undoing
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  that is being able to accept that you were
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  less than perfect and that actually didn't make you a terrible person
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  and all of those like little things like that that
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  i i find when i work with uh somebody with energy work that's the first hurdle
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  that we have to go through is if they haven't been through that process of teaching
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  themselves that it's like safe to just be and not be perfect and change your mind and all of that.
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  So, I don't want to call people out with this,
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  but it's something that I've seen, it's kind of a trend almost But I think we
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  are so conditioned into doing this People that are suffering from,
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  whether it be anxiety or depression,
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  or they're just feeling down on themselves,
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  One of the first things they do is go straight for social media,
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  and they have to plaster it all over.
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  I'm so depressed. I'm so depressed. I'm so depressed. I'm so depressed.
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  I feel for these people. I get it. And listen, I've gone through stages of that,
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  too. I've experienced it.
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  Back when my stepdaughter Hannah used to run with the show, we spoke a lot about it.
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  But see what we need to Make people aware of Once we start doing that We're
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  continuing that cycle And worse yet,
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  Any words that we type Any words that we speak And every time we say hey I'm
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  depressed, I'm depressed, I'm depressed Your body starts to think Well this is it,
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  I'm depressed And the more you start putting it up
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  on social media The more you start telling you know everybody
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  that you know on the part we need
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  to break that habit because it's not
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  getting you anywhere and this is where people have to understand because if
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  i say you just need to change your perspective and start thinking differently
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  and start thinking of better outcomes and putting more positive words forward
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  you will start to change but you have to believe that,
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  You and I, Lizzie, we could give them all the help that they want,
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  you know, but they need to actually embody that and make themselves much more
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  positive and stop with this because I don't know where it comes from.
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  It's a social media thing, but do you get where I'm at?
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  Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I think a lot of people are doing this more or less.
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  And I think it's great you kind of bring that up like right after.
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  Oh, man, I'm so sorry. I'm having a hard time pulling my brain together today.
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  Can you say the last thing that you said one more time? I'm so sorry.
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  Well, I was asking you if I'm right, how people must embody a change in perspective.
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  Yes. Yes. I'm so sorry. So it's important to be honest about your feelings, right?
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  Like you can't bypass them. You can't, you know, rewrite them to be something
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  prettier and more palatable.
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  But you also don't need to go throw it up
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  all over people all over the world you know
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  what I mean and so there's a big difference between venting
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  and seeking support and contrasting your
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  perspective to try to feel better and just kind of like
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  you were saying just kind of like drilling it into
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  yourself and a lot of the times you do
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  have to start with saying something kind of the opposite of how you feel and
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  it does kind of sink in but if you find that when you're saying it and it just
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  like almost hurts to say it like try to do something softer and say like um
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  i don't know if i've ever used this example on the podcast here but.
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  Body positivity is like this huge thing, right? And like back in the day when
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  I was really insecure about my body, if I tried to stand in front of the mirror
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  and talk about how beautiful or sexy I was, like, it made me blush.
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  It made me like feel weird. Like I didn't, I didn't like it.
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  Anytime I did it, I felt worse about myself because my brain said all the things
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  that were not like, you know, why that wasn't true.
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  But when I stumbled upon the concept
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  of body neutrality and you
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  were just like I have an arm that's my
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  arm I have a butt that's my butt you
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  know what I mean it's like you were saying something that was
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  factual but it was like completely neutral and when
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  I did that for a minute it's like it was weird how
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  it was automatic that it's like my mindset shifted a
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  little bit but almost like trying to jump all the
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  way over there just like proved my body how it wasn't all
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  those things already and so you a part
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  of being honest with your feelings is honestly feeling your
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  feelings about what you're trying to feel for the
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  future you know what I mean if you're trying to manifest abundance
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  but you spend every day like feeling like everything is so scarce like drop
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  down from your million dollar goal you know what I mean like let's just like
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  manifest some groceries or something you know what I mean And that honestly
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  can get people so much further and it builds so big.
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  I think with social media, we see all these beautiful examples of this works so good for this person.
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  It took them so far. But it really is just like this array of things.
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  And so that's what we were talking about, kind of focusing all like our stuff
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  for the church is just making it so people have a better opportunity to explore their own truth.
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  Because everybody's out there trying to teach you the way to be true.
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  But like only you know that You know.
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  And I appreciate you really expanding on that Because,
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  yeah, you brought up some very good points It's not
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  so much just willing to accept And willing to start changing And
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  changing your mindset But you don't have to change it So drastically at first
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  You set that neutrality And then build on it from there And that's a wonderful
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  piece of advice And since we're only just starting And we don't really have,
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  you know everything laid out yet but future wise i know you and i spoke about
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  it i'm going through this whole excitement phase and i spoke to you the other
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  day saying hey you know maybe a year ago,
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  i would have been so excited for like a day and then i would have like yeah
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  you know what this isn't gonna work and i'd back
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  out of it and but the
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  changes that i've had because going back a year ago
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  with all that i learned more about positivity and
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  actually shifting your entire mindset and since i've learned that everything
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  comes to me as needed we don't want to throw the ego in there you know we don't
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  want to get the things that you know just because oh i want to be you know a
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  superstar i gotta have this stuff.
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  I receive what it is that I need. And since I started seeing that,
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  I'm so excited to move forward on this to the point where it's like,
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  we got to get this done. We got to get this done.
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  But this is the beauty of positive thinking. And this is something that we will
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  wind up teaching people.
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  And, you know, if we wind up working one-on-one with someone,
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  this is what we're going to offer.
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  And we're going to allow people to see this. So, like I said,
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  if you're listening out there and you're doing, you know, what I'm saying with
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  the posting on social media and all, like I said, change, start now.
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  You know, if you are that person, make that change starting now.
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  And like Lizzie says, it doesn't have to be so drastic. It could be something more neutral.
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  And it's not that I'm calling you out But I really want to help you And even
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  if you never reach out to me The bottom line is You have to make changes And
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  those changes have to start now And just from what I'm observing And it could
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  be more than one person out there It really is,
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  You need to start focusing on something a lot more Positive,
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  And once that starts to happen You'll see how things start to manifest themselves
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  in a much more positive way.
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  And don't get me wrong, you know, and I know Lizzie will back me up on this.
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  There are some people that need probably more than just our spiritual healing.
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  I mean, you need to medically be healed yourself as well, but then you need
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  to want to go further because the one thing we want is for people to enjoy themselves
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  and be the person they really want to be.
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  And at least I know that was something Lizzie and I spoke about,
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  And it's something we want to put as far as the mission for the church So we're
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  going to reach out to everybody And everybody will have a chance to reach out
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  to us But if we could start giving these little nuggets here and there I think
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  that would be a great thing.
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  And I was actually to go back to what you're saying earlier,
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  I was thinking about that when you told me that earlier about how a year ago
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  that you would have gotten kind of like off the track already.
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  And I was thinking about it. And a year ago, I would have been so obsessed with
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  making sure that we wrote down exactly the way that we were supposed to start
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  this, that I would have driven us both crazy.
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  And if you weren't already going to abandon the project, you probably wouldn't
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  at that point. And then I would have abandoned it because I would have been like way too much.
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  I think that this is a big time. We've been friends for a while now,
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  but it only just recently kind of turned into something like building a church.
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  And I think it's kind of a perfect timing because both of us just opened to
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  what we kind of need to see in order to actually make something like that happen
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  without it being like a doctrine church, because that's not quite what we're going for here.
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  Oh, exactly. And like I said, I know there's so much excitement and people are
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  probably all wondering what, you know, we have going on in the background.
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  But like we said, slowly but surely, we'll start getting it out.
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  But really quick, too, even before we go, since you just brought it up there,
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  Lizzie, because we were going to talk about that a little bit more today, too.
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  But I really wanted to get that point out.
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  This way, people can start focusing on themselves to help build themselves up.
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  But connection. I know we were going to talk about that, too.
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  And I know you mentioned since you and I became friends And we were thinking
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  about, you know, a year ago Everything's about divine timing.
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  And our connection that we've had Since we've known each other Has developed
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  into something, you know,
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  Into a church? I mean, you know, how many friends get together and say,
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  oh, we're great. And we're all happy, you know, to be friends.
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  And then let's build a church.
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  And then actually do it. Exactly. And then actually do it.
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  And the project has brought you and I closer too as well.
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  So why don't you give me your thoughts on connection?
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  Because I know it was something we wanted to talk about.
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  Yeah, we were going to kind of make it like a whole episode. but I
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  can kind of summarize like my idea of the
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  episode so okay you know
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  me just going back to totally not talking crap about
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  monogamy okay I'm very specifically talking about
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  uh like where your whole thing is
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  just focused on the one person from a
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  cosmic perspective we're here to make
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  connections with people ideas places all
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  of these things and so you so you
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  meet a friend and you learn how to unconditionally love
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  yourself through this friend and then you meet this romantic partner and you
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  heal your relationship to anger and sadness through this partner and then your
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  co-worker over here you know what I mean and it kind of goes like this but when people specify,
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  all of their connection all their like emotional vulnerability to their romantic
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  partner it actually disrupts your ability to quantumly connect to the people
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  around you the way that you they like that you want to because everything has
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  to be like all rules on like.
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  It's all energetic, but it messes it up.
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  And so now instead of trying to learn all of these things and balance all these
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  things out on these array of connections with people, it's now kind of centered on this one person.
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  And I think that actually makes a lot of things worse because now you're trying
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  to solve all of these problems.
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  I didn't know this one was going to hit my face in the middle of this episode.
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  Now you're trying to focus on all these problems while you're also keeping a
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  relationship together, while you're also doing all these things.
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  And so not talking crap on monogamy, but what I'm saying is that people,
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  it's really important that you still do have friends. You know what I mean?
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  Like, it's got to just be broader, but this is not to say that you can't be
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  like completely in love with your partner.
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  You know what I mean? I mean, I'm talking more about emotional vulnerability.
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  You'll vent to your friend, but you share your deep secrets with this. You know what I mean?
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  You'll cry in front of everybody, but one of them gets like that ugly cry.
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  It's just going to be ugly sometimes with people.
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  You've got to be raw because if you're making a real connection,
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  that's your authentic self.
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  And I think in this culture, we get stuck on that our romantic partner is the
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  only one who can truly love and see our authentic self.
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  And really, it's just us practicing being that around everybody.
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  And when you do that, the connections just may just like freaking fly in.
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  And to break it down a little bit uh it's
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  broadening your circle um because
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  i think many people just feel we are trapped
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  in just one relationship with one person and we're going to share absolutely
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  everything with just that one person that's very limiting um and and we're not
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  talking about going out there and having extramarital affairs and all,
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  but we are literally talking about broadening that sense of your circle as to
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  who you could be authentic to.
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  Your relationship is solid with whomever you are in a relationship,
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  whether it be, you know, that paper marriage or something even more meaningful.
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  And then from there, yeah, we have to develop that there are other people that
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  can enter your life and see things on a level as well,
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  that some people would think, well, that should only be reserved for relationships.
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  Not necessarily.
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  I think if we dump too much on our partner, that creates tension and stress as well.
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  But if we have a little bit of a broader circle there and we can reach out to
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  other people And talk to other people And get their insights too as well Makes
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  it easier for everybody Especially making it easier On the relationship,
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  You will develop these connections They will get closer.
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  But I think spiritually, we need that. It doesn't have to be,
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  again, I don't want to throw the word monogamous out there, but truthfully,
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  we need to start thinking outside of that monogamy.
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  So I hope I kind of broke it down a little bit for you.
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  Yeah, yeah, you can be romantically monogamy, but your connection,
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  you've got to be open to new ideas and perspectives.
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  And to kind of circle it back to your original point and being honest,
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  and authentic with yourself like that really is
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  the first relationship that you should work
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  on because none of your relationships will
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  be better than your relationship with yourself and
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  almost always in all of these relationships whatever's bugging
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  you about that person whatever unmet expectation it's
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  it's in you somewhere that you're judging yourself for you're
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  mad you don't have it you're mad you don't give yourself permission to
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  do it like whatever it is and so the more
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  we can be authentic with ourselves and build
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  that relationship with ourselves that we're safe to
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  be vulnerable and make connections again they just
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  kind of pour in everywhere and the
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  beauty of this is how we connected both because we're talking about being authentic
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  to yourself and whether that be in relationships and connections but we need
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  to be authentic to ourselves when we Need help as well Like we started this off And so this is.
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  Where we can focus on that and say, yeah, being your true self,
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  being that authentic self is just so important.
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  Look, Lizzie and I, we've seen a thing or two.
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  Please don't get me for copyright infringement on that. But we have,
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  and we've been around and we've experienced things in relationships and we've
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  experienced our mental anguishes and all.
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  That's why we're going to take all of that that we've learned through life.
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  And we're going to bring that forward to help those that need it.
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  And so with that, my friend, would you like to add anything else or shall we
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  let this audience go on and be their beautiful selves?
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  This would like to add that although this is a very multi-dimensional concept
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  relationship, we won't be on this topic forever.
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  That's right. We can get stuck.
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  We can make tons of episodes, but I like the way they do necessarily blend and
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  they actually make a point that way. So that's a beautiful thing,
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  but I appreciate your insights so much, Lizzie.
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  And I appreciate our connection. You know that it's wonderful.
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  And Lizzie and I, we appreciate you guys, the audience and everybody that's
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  going through something or struggling with something, or you may be already at that level.
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  You may be steps higher than us. And that's wonderful.
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  That's the beautiful thing with this. We could get everybody on the same level
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  at some point in the collective, and that will be one of our goals.
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  So thank you again, Lizzie, and hopefully we get to see everybody again on our
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  Wednesday night guided meditations.
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  And be looking forward to some Thursday night sermons once we get some things
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  in place and we got a little bit more time. We're going to actually have some
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  Thursday night sermons, and we'll talk about that because they may also be live,
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  too, as well. So, Lizzie, have a wonderful night.
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  Thanks, you too. Take care.